College football’s current recruiting calendar barely resembles the sport’s traditional cycle. In 2017, the sport instituted a largely popular change with the December “early signing period,” giving players a chance to finish their recruitments nearly two months before February’s National Signing Day.
The advent of the transfer portal has created a recruiting cycle crunch, however, putting some of the most important days of the calendar in the middle of bowl season.
Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin has built a strong program during this tumultuous era, but that doesn’t mean he likes how the sport’s recruiting calendar is organized. Ahead of the Rebels’ Peach Bowl showdown with Penn State on Saturday, he went into detail about how disruptive the current system can be for a program.
