NCAA committee recommends stiff penalties for college football teams that try to circumvent transfer portal

The first year of the NCAA's new single transfer portal window for football brought plenty of drama and also loads of complaints about the new-look college football calendar. With spring practices set to begin soon, the NCAA is trying to get ahead of teams potentially circumventing the portal by bringing in additional players to their roster. With the removal of the spring transfer portal window, there is concern from the NCAA that schools could try to add athletes who did not put their name in the portal by simply having them transfer schools as any student would -- withdrawing from their current school and then enrolling at the new school outside of the portal window. To prevent that, the...