Why the NCAA shouldn’t eliminate the spring transfer window

The NCAA announced Tuesday that its oversight committees recommended modifying the winter transfer window to 30 days starting the Monday after conference championship games and eliminating the spring window altogether.

Currently, transfer portal rules allow players 30 days to enter in the winter (after conference championships) and again in the spring (from April 15-30).

The committee justified their decision based on data that showed “many football student-athletes made the decision to transfer after the end of the fall football season.”

While the transfer portal window should be shortened and streamlined, the NCAA’s recommendation would eliminate the wrong window and put athletes in terrible positions.

Perhaps most problematically, the winter window overlaps entirely with the first three weeks of the new College Football Playoff. Fox Sports’ Joel Klatt and CBS Sports’ Josh Pate deliberated the conundrum on “The Joel Klatt Show” on Monday.