Earlier this month, the FBS Oversight Committee proposed a new change to the college football calendar regarding the transfer portal window.

The proposed change is a single portal window, allowing athletes to enter the portal during 10 days from Jan. 2-11. This replaces the 20-day period during December and the additional 10-day window in April.

West Virginia Rich Rodriguez was highly opposed to the two portal window system, especially the window in the spring. Rodriguez didn’t like that he’d coach a player all winter, and then the player could take coaching and transfer to another school to play for another coach.

“I wasted all my time coaching this guy, getting him ready, and then he’s getting a paycheck to go somewhere else,” Rodriguez said back in March.

Rodriguez wasn’t the only Big 12 coach who didn’t like the two portal system. Arizona State head coach Kenny Dillingham and Kansas head coach Lance Leipold spoke on behalf of the conference in early June about the portal.

“As coaches, we unanimously support one portal window, and that is in January,” Leipold said. “That’s what we’d like.”

It sounds like most coaches wanted the one portal period, and it could come in the future. The legislation has until Oct. 1 to approve the single-portal period for it to take effect.

Rodriguez said on Tuesday that he thinks it’s a much better improvement over the current system.

“I think the portal, the two windows, was too many, and then the length of the windows was too much,” Rodriguez said. “Most of the coaches would say it’s just crazy time.”

Rodriguez said most coaches agreed with the proposal, but not all. The Big Ten coaches don’t like the position of the portal window. Jan. 2 would open the portal amidst the quarterfinals of the College Football Playoff, so it again creates the issue of players leaving teams who are still playing.

Last year, backup quarterback Beau Pribula left Penn State during its playoff run to enter the portal, which he didn’t want to, but needed to, to further his career. Pribula transferred to Missouri and has looked like one of the better quarterbacks in college football this year.

Ohio State coach Ryan Day voiced his issues with the proposal.

“No, I don’t think it’s a good idea at all,” Day told reporters at his weekly news conference. “And the conversations we had with the Big Ten coaches, I think the majority of them agree. I just don’t quite understand how teams that are playing in the playoffs are expected to make the decisions and sign their upcoming players while they’re still getting ready to play for games. It doesn’t make any sense to me.”

Where the portal opens might need some adjustments. It’s hard to find a perfect place, though, because the school semester starts up around that time, and athletes need to be enrolled to play. Winter workouts and practice also start around then, too.

It’s not perfect, but it’s a step in the right direction toward Rodriguez’s NFL model.

“I’ve always said as many rules that we can follow that kind of follow what the NFL does because they have the most professional, best professional organization there is,” Rodriguez said. “They’ve got a bunch of rules, and that’s how they’re so competitive every year. We need to follow that. I think going to the one transfer portal window and concentrating that. That’s not the only time you can sign them, that’s the only time you can get in. To me, it is going to make it a whole lot better from an organizational standpoint.”