The NCAA D1 Council announced several changes to the transfer portal and recruiting for college football and basketball. The numbers of the football staff also changed. Here’s a rundown of the changes and how they will affect Ole Miss.
The significant change since the recruiting and transfer portal was the change to coaching in college football. The new standard was approved for any staff member to provide technical and tactical instruction to athletes during practices and games.
– Pete Nakos (@PeteNakos_) June 26, 2024
The change means that quality control analysts and coaches can do more than just the basics of creating a strategy for the game, but not during the game. It now means coaches can have unlimited staff providing on-field instruction, compared to the previous policy of 11 accounting coaches.
Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin must have been confident this would pass muster with his staff signings this offseason. The Rebels hired Joe Judge and Zach Arnett as analysts, which wouldn’t have been cheap. The hope would have been that these guys and others could have a more hands-on coaching role from now on. Kiffin will be delighted that is the case in 2024.
The NCAA made changes to the recruiting calendar that could benefit Ole Miss. The significant change was adding a quiet period in December, allowing teams to focus on the football postseason and allowing for on-campus recruiting. The early signing period would be moved to the first Wednesday after the regular season, ahead of conference championship weekend and the opening of the transfer portal.
Lane Kiffin and former Alabama head coach Nick Saban had been pushing for the change. If Ole Miss makes the College Football Playoff in 2024, the early signing period would cause no disruption. However, the conference championship weekend would still be a few days away, which could be a problem.
Other notable changes to the recruiting calendar included a 31-calendar-day dead period that began July 1. This would mean schools could focus on the new season without worrying about recruiting. The January contract period was also extended, allowing schools to recruit high school juniors and four-year college transfers.
The NCAA D1 Council discussed a rule change regarding the transfer portal, which still needs to be approved in October. The window in which a college football or basketball player could enter his name into the transfer portal was 45 days. A proposal was made on Tuesday to reduce it to 30 days.
The basketball transfer portal currently opens one day after Selection Sunday for 45 days. The football portal is divided into two points in the schedule: a 30-day window in December and a 15-day window in April.
If the changes are approved in October, college basketball would see a 30-day window open after the second round of the NCAA Tournament. It would be necessary to see how it would affect the football portal. Would we see a standalone 30-day window in December? We could possibly see him moved after the National Championship Game, which would be music to Lane Kiffin’s ears.
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