NCAA president Charlie Baker addresses transfer portal proposal, Power Four conferences wanting more control

NASHVILLE — NCAA president Charlie Baker believes there’s time to figure out the transfer portal window situation after FBS coaches voted Tuesday to significantly cut down the days available to transfer. 

Announced at the AFCA convention earlier Tuesday in Charlotte, the football coaches unanimously voted to eliminate the December and April transfer portal windows in favor of a 10-day transfer portal window from Jan. 2-12. It would eliminate 20 days of transfer availability after the NCAA Division I Council already shortened the windows from 45 days down to 30 last year. 

Baker, speaking to a small group of reporters at the NCAA convention a few hundred miles to the west, says the coaches’ proposal will be examined but offered a reminder why there may not be as simple a solution as the coaches want. 

“I think the transfer windows are challenging in part because we need to build them around an academic calendar,” Baker said. “Everybody’s still going to college, one percent maybe will play pro. It’s really important that we not lose sight of that. I get the fact that it’s a challenging calendar as it is, and I fully expect that that will get thoroughly vetted as it should, by the appropriate committees, but they’ve got time to figure that one out.”

The current transfer portal windows have elicited significant frustration from college coaches burnt out from trying to keep up with seemingly non-stop recruiting while their seasons are still going on. Only in college sports does free agency — which is what the transfer portal window is at this point — happen while the playoffs have yet to finish. Penn State backup quarterback Beau Pribula jumping into the transfer portal while the Nittany Lions were still competing for a national…

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Author : John Talty

Publish date : 2025-01-15 02:00:00

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