Xavier Lucas, a former American Heritage football star, knew he wanted to come home. But Wisconsin, where he spent his first year of college, did not want to let him transfer. The Badgers did not enter the cornerback’s name in the transfer portal within two business days,

Xavier Lucas’s transfer to Miami without using the portal highlights flaws in the NCAA’s system for managing college athlete transfers.

It is a precedent-setting battle. For years college programs have complained vaguely about the transfer portal, but few have called out specific institutions for tampering.