AJ McCarron blasts NCAA for having multiple transfer portal windows: 'Outrageous'

AJ McCarron blasted the NCAA for having multiple transfer portal windows for football season. The former Alabama quarterback said there has to be one to even attempt at reducing tampering and player movement, that would be out of the ordinary of course.
McCarron, for context, referenced Wisconsin suing Miami for tampering with transfer Xavier Lucas. Lucas alleged that the Badgers’ staff refused to enter his name into the portal in December when he left Wisconsin and enrolled at Miami in January.
Right now, there’s a winter portal and a spring portal for football. An extreme example would be an early enrollee freshman coming to a program in December or January and then transferring to a new school three months or so later before even starting their first season.
“Having these multiple transfer portal windows (is) just awful,” McCarron said on The Dynasty. “I don’t understand it. It’s one of the stupidest things that the NCAA is allowing right now. There should be one only window, and it’s at, just say, January, towards the end of the year, after bowl games, whatever it is like, the fact that there’s multiple is outrageous.
“Now there’s already tampering going on. Like you gotta be a complete dummy to think that no other university is tampering … For Xavier (Lucas’) case, they said it was like an uncle or a family member that met with a university Miami coach and hosted them at their house one week, so one weekend, and that’s how they came up with a deal. So how do you track any of this? How do you make sure guys are following rules? There’s no way to do it right?”
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McCarron went on to say how there are so many loopholes to the current transfer portal rules. Throw NIL into the mix and boy, you’ve got the wild west.
Tampering has become a massive topic of concern for coaches in recent years. NIL and the Transfer Portal have created massive roster movement, and that incentivizes teams to speak to players to get them to enter the portal, knowing the offer they’ll receive once they enter.
“There’s so many avenues with social media, platforms, burner phones, there’s so many things that you can go around and find a way to sneak around and tamper with with athletes,” McCarron said. “Listen, for the sake of college football, they need this ruling to go in the favor of Wisconsin. So there’s an actual set of rules that they have to go by. If it’s not, it’s just going to make it more of the wild wild west.”