NCAA proposes penalties for football programs circumventing transfer portal process
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The NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision Oversight Committee proposed penalties on Wednesday for programs who try to get around the transfer portal process in one form or another.
The committee recommended that the Division I Cabinet “adopt emergency legislation to address schools adding transfer student-athletes to their football roster if the student-athletes did not provide notification of their wish to transfer during football’s January window.”
The committee members proposed severe penalties for programs that are found to be in violation of this rule.
With there being no spring transfer window this year, these proposed rules are meant to slow down transfer activity following spring practice. The proposed rules wouldn’t change that the transfer portal window is all about entry, with student-athletes being able to transfer in the months after the January window ends as long as they entered the portal during the January window itself.
If the Division I Cabinet approves these proposed rules, an enrolled student-athlete “who was not active in the transfer portal at the time of transfer participants in any athletically related activity at the next school” would face the following actions:
- The head coach would be prohibited from all football (recruiting and on-field coaching) and administrative duties (team meetings) for 6 contest.
- The school would be fined 20% of its football budget.
- The school would be required to reduce the number of roster spots by 5 for the next season, regardless of the head coach’s employment status at the school.
This proposed legislation on Wednesday would be put into effect immediately if it is approved at the Division I Cabinet meeting in April.
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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.
