The NCAA FBS Oversight Committee on Friday zeroed in on a recommendation meant to aggressively penalize teams for adding players outside of the transfer portal window.
Adjusting a proposal initially formed in February, the oversight committee settled on a pair of actions that would occur if a team added a player who wasn’t entered into the transfer portal during the January window:
The head coach would be prohibited from all football (recruiting and on-field coaching) and administrative duties (team meetings) for six contests.The school would be fined 20% of its football budget.
The committee had previously proposed that a school would also lose five scholarships for adding a player not in the portal outside of the portal window. But that’s since been removed from the proposal.
The committee left arguably the two most punishing penalties in its proposal, however. Losing five scholarships isn’t crippling in an era where teams can carry 105 scholarship players. A head coach losing his ability to recruit and literally do his job in-season is very stringent. So is a team being fined 20% of its football budget.
The proposal still must be adopted by the Division I cabinet, but it’s clear the NCAA is taking aim at a transfer loophole that athletes have taken advantage of over the past year and could have had a major impact this spring.
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When the NCAA moved from winter and spring transfer portal windows to a single window in January, it did so with the intent that all player movement happens in a single period immediately following the season.
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