Lane Kiffin has spoken at length on college football’s new era of “free agency” with name, image and likeness enhancements leading to a record number of players entering the NCAA transfer portal this month. Kiffin, who has no issue with student-athletes being able to come and go as they please, recently went in-depth on what needs to happen in the near future with more parameters being set to protect players.
“It should just be more thought out, to have windows and you know when they’re leaving,” Kiffin said last week on The Rich Eisen Show. “They should have this, just like coaches do. There’s no window. And also, they’re not being advised very well. You have thousands of kids going into the portal, but there’s not thousands of spots for people to take.
Broken promises on the recruiting trail are now commonplace in college football thanks to NIL, Kiffin says.
“It’s a lot more complicated because you’re kind of making it like the NFL where here’s your salary cap, but there’s not a cap and nothing’s on paper,” Kiffin said.
