David Pollack blasts Lane Kiffin for promoting second portal window: ‘Do we want this madness?’

Lane Kiffin (Matthew Hinton-Imagn Images) | David Pollack (Hannah Mattix-Clarion Ledger/USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

Lane Kiffin just wrapped his first Spring as LSU‘s new head football coach last weekend and already wants another opportunity in the transfer portal. Kiffin, among the sport’s most active coaches with 40 new transfer additions during January’s two-week portal window, recently doubled down on his desire for a second post-Spring window.

“I’ve been very open about that, I wish there was another (portal window),” Kiffin said April 28. “I’ve talked to other coaches about that, and coaches that have been somewhere 2-3 years feel differently because they like that they have their whole roster. … But in your first year, yeah, I don’t think many coaches would say that, but if they were honest, they’d probably say they wished there was (another) one.”

Kiffin’s wish for a second portal window comes less than six months after the NCAA formally established a single Jan. 2-16 transfer window last October. That move came a month after the NCAA Division I committee eliminated the chaotic Spring window that most of Kiffin’s coaching colleagues maligned for how it negatively impacted their rosters following Spring practice.

And while a second portal window isn’t seriously being considered — at least at the moment — the fact that Kiffin is even suggesting such a move has already ruffled some feathers around the sport. In fact, former ESPN analyst and Georgia legend David Pollack even called out the new LSU coach for proposing such a move.