{"id":848978,"date":"2026-04-02T10:14:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T10:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/848978\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T10:14:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T10:14:31","slug":"ncaa-rules-in-favor-of-harsh-punishments-for-schools-that-circumvent-transfer-rules-deseret-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/848978\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA rules in favor of harsh punishments for schools that circumvent transfer rules \u2013 Deseret News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The NCAA announced Tuesday it has ruled in favor of adopting new punishments for schools that circumvent the transfer portal window.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Effective immediately, schools that sign players outside of the transfer portal will have automatically triggered penalties, including \u201ca suspension of the respective sport\u2019s head coach for 50% of a season and a fine of 20% of that sport\u2019s budget.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">There is only one transfer portal window now in college football, which was open from Jan. 2-16, 2026. The new rules in place look to patch a loophole like the one that Jake Retzlaff used to play at Tulane. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In June, Retzlaff <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deseret.com\/sports\/2025\/07\/11\/report-jake-retzlaff-withdrawing-byu-enroll-elsewhere\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.deseret.com\/sports\/2025\/07\/11\/report-jake-retzlaff-withdrawing-byu-enroll-elsewhere\/\">faced a seven-game suspension<\/a> for violating BYU\u2019s honor code. Both portal windows had passed, but Retzlaff withdrew from BYU, enrolled at Tulane and walked onto the team. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Though the circumstances around Retzlaff\u2019s departure were different than a player simply leaving for more money, with the passing of the new rules, players will not be able to withdraw from their current schools and walk on somewhere else if they do not enter their name into the transfer portal during the transfer window.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThis change addresses gaps in the transfer and tampering policies that have allowed for abuse, but we acknowledge that there is more work to do,\u201d said Josh Whitman, chair of the Division I Cabinet and athletics director at Illinois, in a statement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThanks to the new, more streamlined structure for Division I decision-making, we were able to take a good idea that originated with practitioners, vet it and approve it, all in a matter of weeks. We believe closing this loophole simplifies things for student-athletes and holds schools accountable for their actions.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NCAA announced Tuesday it has ruled in favor of adopting new punishments for schools that circumvent the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,49,48,1852],"class_list":{"0":"post-848978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-news-feed-national"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116334589603443064","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}