NCAA Division I Council to Consider Eliminating 15-Day Spring Transfer Window for college football as part of a move to reduce the total number of days from 45 to 30 in which a player can declare his intention to transfer while still maintaining immediate eligibility.
The NCAA announced Tuesday that its football oversight committee has recommended reducing the transfer window from two to one. The committee will meet in October and, if approved, the new window agreement could take effect this year from Dec. 9 to Jan. 7.
The oversight committee has recommended cutting the total number of portal days from 15 to 30 days. That is likely to pass. The question now is: two 15-day windows, winter and spring, or one 30-day window, starting in December.
Transfer windows are for college athletes to maintain eligibility immediately. Graduate transfer students can enter the portal at any time and remain eligible to play immediately at their new school.
Eliminating the spring window is widely supported by coaches, but it’s unclear how much pushback there will be from athletes, especially with plans to move from a scholarship cap to a roster cap next year that could require roster cuts in the spring.
This proposal does not affect the exception for football players in both the Bowl Subdivision and Championship Subdivision who play in the postseason. These athletes would be given five days after their team’s last game, if necessary.
The oversight committee also recommended passing a blanket waiver for this season that would allow postseason games to not count toward the four games a football player can play in while still retaining a year of reserve eligibility.
According to The Associated Press.
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