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Kirby Smart names ‘biggest decision’ facing college football leaders this offseason
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While there are plenty of issues to be worked out across the college football landscape, Georgia coach Kirby Smart is focusing on one problem in-particular: the transfer portal.
The current model includes 2 transfer portal windows where players are free to move programs during the offseason. The first window happens in December after the end of the regular season and the second window happens in the spring ahead of summer workouts.
But the future of that model has been highly-debated in recent months as it’s proven to be disruptive for teams who end up competing for the National Championship deep into January. Smart went as far as to call it the “biggest decision” facing college football leaders this offseason.
“The biggest decision that has to be made in college football right now, by far, is when is the portal window,” Smart told reporters during an availability at SEC spring meetings on Tuesday. “And is there 1 or 2 [windows]?”
Smart acknowledged that his complaints about the winter portal window interfering with the College Football Playoff have fallen on deaf ears.
“No crying from the yacht,” Smart says he was told.
Smart is advocating for a single transfer portal window that would take place in January. Earlier this year, head coaches at the AFCA Convention in Charlotte unanimously voted to recommend moving to a single transfer window that would take place annually between Jan. 2 and Jan. 12. However, that proposal would have to be approved by the Football Oversight Committee before it can be adopted.
Discussion on this topic as well as a number of other issues is expected to continue in Destin this week during SEC spring meetings.
Spenser is a news editor for Saturday Down South and covers college football across all Saturday Football brands.
