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Would a single transfer portal in January or April make the most sense? Yahoo Sports
The sport&#x27,s leaders are torn on how to handle the transfer portal moving forward, but they&#x27,re on the clock after the House settlement decision. College football's calendar needs an overhaul.

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Would a single transfer portal in January or April make the most sense? ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Can you imagine a summer signing day in college football? What about a single transfer portal? How about spring practices shifted to June? Those are the questions expected to be answered by members of a new committee of power conference administrators exploring ways to overhaul a 365-day college football calendar that was originally built for an amateurism system. College executives are reinventing a dated calendar to marry with the House settlement-related athlete-revenue sharing model set to begin July 1. And they are on the clock to do it. “It is imperative to our industry that we make this decision on the calendar by July 1,” Washington athletic director Pat Chun told Yahoo Sports from Orlando last week at a gathering of athletic administrators. “Once July 1 hits, teams will start tracking for 2026. We need to know the calendar.” Here in Asheville, North Carolina, this week, the 32 Division I conference commissioners gather for their annual summer meeting, where a host of items are on the agenda: the future of NCAA governance (will a separate division be created for the power leagues?), the College Football Playoff format (will adjustments to the selection criteria appease the Big Ten and SEC?), the NCAA tournament (is expansion happening or not?), and the many unsettled concepts tethered to the industry’s landmark move to share revenue directly with athletes. Of all the decisions that administrators must make in the wake of the settlement’s approval, the football calendar is, perhaps, the most pressing of them. Making matters more difficult is that they don’t agree on the most critical piece: the timing of the transfer portal. Should it be in January or April? A fight is brewing. While the majority of coaches want a 10-day portal period in early January, many administrators, as well as coaches in the Big Ten, are supporting an April portal date as a way to more align the portal with the academic calendar (ending in May) and a school’s new revenue share cap year (ending in June). The portal’s date not only impacts decisions on spring practice but it may determine if a second portal window will continue to exist. For instance, SEC coaches, hell bent on a January portal date, agreed last month that they’d prefer keeping two portal windows over a single window in April. College football's leaders are torn on how to handle the transfer portal moving forward, but they're on the clock after the House settlement decision. (Paras Griffin/Getty Images) A brewing fight is playing out over the issue between college sports’ two perennial conferences — the SEC and Big Ten — as well as the industry’s administrative leadership versus many of its high-profile head coaches. SEC coaches want a January portal in an effort to secure next season’s team, develop that team during spring practice and avoid one-third of their players transferring after spring. Big Ten coaches want a spring portal to more align with their academic calendar (the quarter system) and the revenue-share cap year. “April (portal) doesn’t make any sense,” LSU coach Brian Kelly told Yahoo Sports two weeks ago from SEC meetings. “You are going to put a business together and 33% of your revenue share (paid players) could be gone in three months? That’s stupid. It just doesn’t make any sense. (Big Ten coaches) are trying to set it to their academic calendar and they’re saying they can’t get guys in in January. Come on. We are firm on January and if we have to do a second (portal), we would. But we are firm on January.” A January portal reeks of one-track mind thinking, says Ohio State athletic director Ross Bjork. “With January, we are only worried about one thing and that’s the football team,” he told Yahoo Sports from Orlando last week.”‘Oh! We got to have everybody there for a second semester because I have to get them in spring ball!’ “If we want to worry about the financial component and the academic component, the best window is spring,” he said.