Hours after coaches made their case for a simpler calendar, Baker pumped the brakes on an immediate slashing of most portal windows

Charlie Baker, speaking with reporters at the NCAA Convention, said transfer windows are challenging because they must be built around academic calendars.

FBS coaches voted unanimously in favor of replacing the current two portal periods with one 10-day stretch in January.

The athletic director at a mid-sized school that’s making a splash this season has a modest proposal that might offer one way to tame what many say is a transfer-portal system run amok in college sports.

An athletic director has a proposal for taming what many say is a transfer-portal system run amok in college sports.

The athletic director at Northern Illinois has a modest proposal for taming what many say is a transfer system run amok in college sports.