D-I proposition would diminish portal window by half

• Tom VanHaaren, ESPN Personnel WriterJun 28, 2023, 06:01 PM ET Close ESPN staff writer Signed up with ESPN in 2011

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The NCAA Division I Council proposed changes to the transfer duration windows that would minimize the total number of days that trainee professional athletes can enter the transfer portal from 60 down to 30.

As it stands now, there is a transfer window in college football that begins the day after the College Football Playoff teams are announced, which was Dec. 4 in 2022, and is open for 45 days. Another transfer window is open in the spring from April 15 to April 30.

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For winter season sports, there is a 60-day window that starts with a given sport’s championship selection and there is a 45-day window for spring sports that starts with that sport’s champion choice, as well.The transfer windows were created this past year to restrict the timeframe for which athletes can move from school to school.Undergraduate student-athletes should enter their name in the transfer website during those windows to be approved immediate eligibility at their next school of choice. They are not required to transfer within those dates, as long as their name is entered prior to the closing of the particular transfer window.An overall of 2,224 Department I football players went into the transfer portal this past winter season and 1,373 gone into in

the spring. The Council says in its release that they have information from this past year that shows most student-athletes enter the portal at the beginning of the transfer window.With the proposition, oversight committees and the Department I Student Athlete Advisory Committee will collect additional feedback and offer possible modifications this summertime. The Council will then consider a last vote throughout its October conference.