Portal combat: Valley Football coaches adjust to life in the transfer era

Portal combat: Valley Football coaches adjust to life in the transfer era

SIOUX FALLS — The transfer portal has changed college athletics, and perhaps no sport has been as uniquely impacted as football at the Division I FCS level. All-conference caliber players get snapped up by FBS powers every year (the No. 1 pick in this year's NFL Draft, Miami's Cam Ward, first made a name for himself at FCS Incarnate Word) and this past offseason saw literally hundreds of good-but-not-necessarily-great FCS players offered six fig…