BIRMINGHAM, Alabama — There’s two ways to look at college football transfers: the way Grambling coach Broderick Fobbs does it and the way Southern’s Dawson Odums does.Fobbs is a big believer in bringing in transfers. The three-time defending SWAC West champion Tigers list 21 transfers on their 2018 roster, including eight from the FBS or FCS levels.
“For the most part, it’s worked out well for us,” Fobbs said. “There’s maybe one or two times it hasn’t. But probably 80 percent of the guys we bring in are guys we know and guys that we feel really good about doing things the right way.”
The first question Fobbs asks is if the player wants to conform to what his program does or does the player want the program to conform to him? If it’s the former, the transfer can proceed.
Once on campus, Fobbs lets his players take over. A mixture of welcoming attitudes and what he described as “peer pressure” to do things the Grambling way shapes players into Tigers.
Then there’s the Southern’s old-school method of relying on high school recruits. Odums’ Southern roster currently lists six transfers this year, one more than last season.
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