Lane Kiffin bemoans NCAA opening spring transfer window

Lane Kiffin bemoaned the NCAA transfer portal window in the spring, once again. Heck, the Ole Miss coach said as much, as in, “here we go again.”

Kiffin is not a fan of the portal, at least in terms of how it operates under the current rules. Well, there really aren’t many rules with the portal and NIL at the moment.

Kiffin is ready for anything at this point, including with his own team.

“We still have one practice Monday, exit meetings with players and stuff and you know, when free agency opens, but people are already kind of announcing they’re going into it as you see around the country,” Kiffin said. “So it’s just where we are. Like 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. And it’s benefited us as well as anybody around the country. But it’s really a really poor system.” 

Kiffin noted how it’s basically like the NFL, which isn’t exactly headline news. However, the Ole Miss coach does not fault the players.

It’s simply a product of the current system.

“And here we go again, guys already announced and they just got somewhere in January,” Kiffin said. “They’re leaving again already. So they went and got paid. You know, took up spots and it’s not their fault. It’s not the players fault at all. I mean, this is a system that’s created that they’re utilizing in the NFL. (Imagine the NFL had two) windows a year and you could opt in every year or twice a year, guys would do it … So it is what it is.”

As far as his own team, Kiffin is confident that his squad will stay intact. Then again, nothing in life is certain and he and his staff will keep a close eye.

“I think we’re really good,” Kiffin said. “But then again, you got to stay on all of it. Because again, it’s a system that, you know, really gets players that may be really happy, maybe everything going great and they got a relative or something and they get pre portaled and someone tells them come here, you know? They’re locked out of going to the SEC but outside of the SEC come here and you’ll make more money. So you gotta be ready for it.”