The NCAA is shortening transfer windows in all sports from 60 to 45 days per year, the organization announced on Wednesday.
The transfer portal for football will be open for 30 days at the end of the regular season and then 15 days in the spring, while the portal will open for men’s and women’s basketball players for 45 days after the regular season ends.
The move to shorten the transfer windows was expected, as this had been a source of frustration for coaches and administrators all offseason. Pitt athletic director Heather Lyke, who chairs the NCAA’s FBS Oversight Committee, told The Athletic last week that NCAA data shows 70 to 80 percent of athletes who enter the portal do so within the first five days of its opening.
The DI Council approved changes to transfer windows in all sports to 45 days, including:
🏀Men’s & women’s basketball: 45 days
🏈Football: 45 days (30 days after season, 15 days in spring)Council actions are not final until meeting concludes today.
— NCAA PR (@NCAA_PR) October 4, 2023
In July, the council introduced a proposal to shorten transfer windows to 30 days, down from the current 60-day period. The windows have been in effect for only one full academic year, but that has provided enough data for the NCAA to determine that most athletes…
