FootballScoop.com has reported that a proposal to alter the guidelines to the transfer portal will be accepted.
“The wide-open, no regulation, no guardrails era of college football will soon have at least some guardrails,” the website said.
Gone will be the open season, round-the-calendar Transfer Portal. In its place will be two, timed transfer options each year.
One would be a 45-day window that would begin after the regular college football season and conference championships have wrapped up. It’s presupresumably beginning on or about the day after the playoff selection has completed—roughly the time between the early signing period and national signing day, the first Tuesday in February.
The other proposed window will be a 15-day window that will coincide with the end of Spring football practices. The second widow is expected to be May 1-15.
This proposal makes sense. In the case of the Washington quarterback room 3 years ago it could have prevented an emptying of the bench at the end of fall camp when Jake Haener opted out when Jacob Eason was announced as the season starter.
In fact, if Haener had stuck it out he may have been the incumbent going into this coming season.
This proposal would give players a cooling-off period when things don’t go their way or are caught in the throws of a coaching change.
If approved there’s some built-in financial protection for each institution as schools who accept transfers will also accept the financial obligation, to each player they take, until their eligibility is exhausted.
In the transition from Jimmy Lake to Kalen DeBoer the Huskies had 4 contributors leave for competitors. He saw DL Sam Taimani transfer to Oregon, Jackson Sirmon head to Cal, and lost WR Terrell Bynum and Jacobe Covington to USC.
It cuts both ways as The Huskies fortified their ranks through the Transfer Portal under DeBoer. Offensively, he landed Indiana QB Michael Penix, WR’s Junior Alexander come home from Arizona State and Will Nixon from Nebraska, RB’s Aaron Dumas from New Mexico and Wayne Taulapapa.
Defensively, Washington brought in LB ‘s Kristopher Moll from the University of Alabama Birmingham and Cam Bright from Pittsburgh and DB Jordan Perryman from UC Davis.
In all, this will provide stability that is good for the players and the schools.
