Once again transfer portal madness has swallowed up college football casting a dark cloud over bowl season. Already standout starting quarterbacks Dillon Gabriel at OU, Kyle Mccord at Ohio State, and Will Howard at Kansas State, have announced their intentions to answer the transfer portal before their bowl games.
Once again bowl season will feature gutted rosters as teams have players going out and have set to bring in their fresh recruits from the transfer portal, putting a damper on what would otherwise be exciting matchups.
Now this article isn’t a criticism of the transfer portal, the portal while having its downsides has created parity within college football and has helped to break the SEC’s stranglehold on the sport. The problem is that the NCAA opens the transfer portal before the end of the season.
This is an easily avoidable self-inflicted wound to the sport with a simple solution, don’t open the transfer portal until the end of the season. If players couldn’t jump in the portal before the season ended more players would be incentivized to finish the year with their teams, it would even provide 1 more chance to impress potential suitors in the portal.
Now a downside to this would be it would give students less time to enroll for the winter semester, but are college athletics really about academics in today’s day and age? Besides I’m sure the multi-million dollar universities can figure out a way to accommodate these students if they enroll in January instead of December.
While the transfer portal has helped the sport of college football, opening the window before the season is over is ridiculous and the NCAA needs to make a change.
