West Virginia’s Rich Rodriguez was vocal this spring about his problems with the NCAA and the current state of college football. His biggest issue was with the transfer portal, and how there were two openings, with one in the winter and the other in the spring.
Rodriguez wants to adopt a professional model, like Bill Belichick’s model, with one portal window being like free agency and recruiting being the draft.
“It kind of sucks that we have to do so much roster movement, management, whatever you want to call it in April,” Rodriguez said early this spring. “I guess I am complaining. It’s kind of a new thing in college football. It’s not smart. It’s not right. It’s not organized correctly.”
Rodriguez wants one portal period. His argument is that he’ll coach a player all spring, and then after he’s spent all his time and effort developing the player, he can just jump in the portal and play against him in the fall.
“I mean, how ridiculous is that?” Rodriguez said in March. “There’s another portal thing coming up in a couple of weeks… I wasted all my time coaching this guy, getting him ready, and then he’s getting a paycheck to go somewhere else.”
Rodriguez isn’t the only coach in college football who sees this as an issue. Last week, the Big 12 coaches, athletic directors, and commissioner Brett Yormark met to talk about the current state of the sport and voiced their complaints.
Thursday, Arizona State coach Kenny Dillingham and Kansas coach Lance Leipold took to the podium, answering questions about what they’d like to see for the future of college football, representing the rest of the Big 12 coaches.
The consensus for the portal was that the Big 12 coaches agree with Rodriguez and want one portal period.
“As coaches, we…
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