The current college football calendar puts a lot of stress on coaches and players in the month of December with the transfer portal window and the early signing period occurring while teams are preparing for bowl games. And Ole Miss Rebels head coach Lane Kiffin is not happy about it.
During a recent press conference, Lane Kiffin absolutely blasted college football for the current calendar, calling it “a terrible system.”
“We’re actually kind of, finally, to a normal part now, where today’s Tuesday and we actually play on a Saturday,” Lane Kiffin said. “So it’s a normal week for us. We’re just in a hotel in a different city. Previous to this, it’s been a little chaotic with not just recruiting and flying around, trying to get back for practice, a lot of assistant coaches not at the practices. But then, dealing with the portal, going to other universities to see kids and dealing with keeping our own kids.
“Again, it’s a terrible system. No other — I wouldn’t think any other sports, professional sports, have ever set up a system where free agency starts while the season is still going. So it really makes no sense. You can leave, you can stay, you can go other places, coaches can call you and our season is still going. It would be like before the NFC or AFC playoffs start in a couple weeks, all of a sudden, hey, free agency the week before opens. So you can start recruiting other people’s players and fly them on trips and get them to transfer. So really, in a really bad system.”
It’s unlikely that Kiffin is the only coach who feels this way, but he’s clearly one of the most outspoken in his criticism of the current system. We’ll have to see if college football makes any changes to the calendar in the coming years.
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