There are a lot of weird rules in college football. But at the end of the day, fans typically just accept the rules for what they are so they can sit back and enjoy watching their favorite team.
This for the most part is the case with head coaches as well, especially Kirby Smart who tends to just focus on his team and only his team. He isn’t worried about what other schools are doing or what obscure rules there are out there.
However, there is one rule in the SEC that just doesn’t make any sense, and Smart spoke out about how dumb he thinks it is.
”There’s nobody that loves that rule more than the teams outside the SEC. I mean, they love that rule.”
SEC players can’t transfer to another SEC school
The rule Smart is referencing is the SEC’s rule that players who enter the spring transfer portal window can only transfer to another SEC school if they sit out a year. So this essentially means that no player in the conference will transfer to another SEC school because nobody wants to sit out for a year.
This rule on the surface does make a little sense because it could cause some players to end up sticking with their current school instead of transferring. But that positive gets immediately taken away because no other power conference has this rule in place.
This obviously puts Georgia and the rest of the SEC at a massive disadvantage because the pool of players they can recruit is much smaller than every other school. And everyone knows the SEC is the conference with the most talent, so not being able to recruit that talent seems unfair.
So if any rule should go away let’s hope it’s this one, because why would the SEC want to put their schools at a disadvantage compared to the rest of the country?