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College sports, especially basketball and football, are in a major state of flux right now thanks to NIL money and the transfer portal.
As a result, there has been an unusual amount of coaches, particularly in college football, who are heading to the NFL for employment or in some cases just retiring altogether.
While the NCAA mulls major changes to transfer portal eligibility rules, coaches like Rick Pitino have been offering up even more drastic alternatives to the current system.
One of the more outspoken coaches in college, Lane Kiffin of Ole Miss, expressed his frustration with the current system following the Grove Bowl Games on Saturday.
“We still have one practice Monday. Exit meetings with players and stuff, then free agency opens,” Kiffin said, according to Inside the Rebels. “People are already announcing they’re going into it as you see around the country. Again, it’s just where we are.”
The college football spring transfer portal window for undergraduates opens April 15 and comes to a close on April 30.
“I’ve said before, it probably sounds weird for me because I think we take advantage and we maximize the system that’s in place as well as anybody. It’s benefited us as well as anybody around the country, but it’s really a really poor system,” Lane Kiffin continued.
“Here we go again. They just got somewhere in January, they’re leaving again already. They went, got paid and took up spots. It’s not the players’ fault at all. It’s the system that’s created that they’re utilizing.
“In the NFL if you put two free agent windows a year and you could opt in every year, twice a year, guys would do it. You can’t be mad at the players. Any people with any idea of what a system would create like that would never do this.”
As Kirk Herbstreit put it back in February, “The sport is spiraling out of control.”