Jedd Fisch has a plan for ending tampering in the transfer portal
Jedd Fisch has a plan for ending tampering in the transfer portal
One of the most prevalent issues with the transfer portal is tampering. In December, Washington Huskies stars Denzel Boston and Jonah Coleman stated that eight to ten schools around the country contacted them in an attempt to sway them into entering the portal.
Quarterback Demond Williams Jr. had a different answer when asked if schools had approached him and tried to sway him to leave Washington.
"Nah," he said at a press conference in December.
Whether he was or not, as he and other coaches around the country campaign for widespread change to the transfer portal, Jedd Fisch has a plan for putting an end to tampering.
"Make contracts mean something, that would be the way to stop it," Fisch said on an episode of the Canzano and Wilner podcast. "Penalize, like lose five scholarships for tampering...make contracts more than every six months. The only way to stop tampering is to have better regulation on whether or not movement is going to be real or not real. People call our players after every single game."
"What I think people don't realize is the relationship we have with our players is a lot stronger than the relationship somebody thinks they have by calling one of our players, so the information comes back to us all the time, and we're aware of every tampering event that occurs. The question becomes, 'What is tampering?' Is it allowed or is it not allowed? Until we figure out if it's allowed it's going to continue."
With regulations seemingly on the horizon for NIL, figuring out how to manage the transfer portal may not be too far behind for the world of college football.
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