Greg Sankey sat down with Joel Klatt on Monday to discuss how to improve the transfer portal. Sankey was featured on ‘The Joel Klatt Show’ to weigh in on it.

Two of the issues that Klatt brought up to Sankey were tampering and using NIL to induce players. Sankey admitted that there is more than just one problem when it comes to those areas.

“We’re not dealing with one problem, we’re dealing with a range of realities. Some of those issues were just kind of cans kicked down the proverbial road over time. When we did dig into it we had a pandemic, we had eligibility extensions, we had more people staying in the system. It’s not the portal, it’s the controlling set of issues behind the portal.”

Sankey believes that the next best step for the transfer portal is to shorten the windows. As it currently stands, there is a 45-day window after College Football Playoff selection and a spring window from April 15 to 30.

“Looking back at what we learned in December and January of this past year, I think we shorten that 45-day window. Not everyone will like that. What you saw when the portal opened, the day after bowl placement, the first week or two was the exact behavior anticipated. A lot of people who didn’t get playing time or didn’t make the right decisions raised their hand and said I would like to leave. After those two weeks, you had a lot of third-parties and agents saying ‘I’ve got a deal for you if you leave’. That’s not name, image and likeness.”

How much shorter should the transfer windows be? It looks like another change could be coming to the transfer portal.