NCAA decides to eliminate spring football transfer portal window, per report
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The NCAA Administrative Committee announced on Wednesday that it’s going to eliminate the spring football transfer portal window, according to a report by Yahoo Sports.
According to the Yahoo Sports report, the NCAA committee has not decided what the exact length of a single fall transfer portal window will be, and it also hasn’t decided what the timing of the fall window will be on the calendar. The report said a decision on all of the details of that single fall transfer portal window will come within the next month.
The Division I Football Oversight Committee had voted earlier this month to approve a 10-day portal, but that particular period of time was not approved on Wednesday. The reported elimination of the spring portal window will help consolidate the movement of players from 1 program to another to 1 period of time instead of 2 and would also eliminate the distraction of the spring portal window when teams are busy with spring football practice.
“In response to student-athlete feedback, football oversight committees will consider modifications to the proposed single January window, including the length of the window and corresponding dates,” the NCAA said in a statement.
The 1 big question that would remain going forward is when that single portal window would be, with the previous proposal being for Jan. 2-11.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
