> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.emeraldcityspectrum.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Washington Huskies AD Pat Chun Reiterates Desire For Singular Transfer Portal Window - URL: https://www.emeraldcityspectrum.com/washington-huskies-pat-chun-reiterates-desire-singular-transfer-portal-window/ - Published: 2025-07-17T21:08:45.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-08T06:19:15.000Z - Author: Aaron Coe - Tags: News, Washington Football, Huskies, Pat Chun, Transfer Portal, College Football Playoffs \[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1080"\] ![ Washington Huskies athletic director Pat Chun speaks with reporters at an event. Credit: Pat Chun/Instagram ](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1d/f2/1df2f77b-83dd-4bc0-a6d2-6d1bb5df89a3/content/images/2026/10/472947928_471301549079311_2674203527044897298_n-format-original-1.jpg) Washington Huskies athletic director Pat Chun speaks with reporters at an event. Credit: Pat Chun/Instagram \[/caption\] Imagine if your favorite NFL team was heading into the divisional round — and the team’s backup quarterback suddenly decided to find another team. Sound absurd? That’s currently an option for college football players, and Penn State saw it happen when backup quarterback Beau Pribula entered the portal in December as the Nittany Lions hoped starter Drew Allar stayed upright for the remainder of the 2024 season. Had Allar suffered an injury, Pribula suddenly would have become the most important player on a College Football Playoff team. Instead, he entered the portal prior to the December 28 deadline, and thus was not with the team when Penn State beat Boise State 31-14 in a quarterfinal on New Year’s Eve. Pribula eventually transferred to Missouri, where he’s locked in a battle for a starting quarterback job he had virtually no chance of earning this year with the Nittany Lions. University of Washington Athletic Director Pat Chun, who recently joined “The Triple Option Podcast” with Urban Meyer, Mark Ingram II, and Rob Stone remotely while vacationing in Alaska, believes the calendar needs to change to prevent those situations. Now that players on college football teams can receive a piece of as much as $16.3 million this season after the [approval of the House settlement](https://www.emeraldcityspectrum.com/home/ncaa-settlement-washington-huskies-new-era-college-athletics), many coaches and athletic directors are calling for more roster stability now that there’s essentially a salary cap in place. "We've got to rethink our football calendars," Chun said on the podcast. "We've seen spring football changes right before our eyes — a lot of coaches aren't using it for what it was." What remains to be seen is whether or not any transfer limitations will hold up in court. Most non-athlete members of a student body are able to apply to transfer to a different institution for any academic period during any school year. Football players are currently limited to two windows of time to enter the transfer portal. The most recent spring portal was open April 16-25, while the winter option was December 9-28\. With the football season currently scheduled to end on January 19, players on teams in the College Football Playoff planning to transfer must choose between missing the playoffs, or in some cases, missing spring ball with their new teams. Pribula chose to move on. Dylan Morris, on the other hand, stayed with Washington as the backup behind Michael Penix Jr. when the Huskies advanced to the 2023 title game while he was in the portal. “All this player movement that is happening in December, maybe January, is it good for the game?” Chun said. “I think that’s the question. Is that a principle that’s important to us as caretakers of this game? … Come December, come January, you want to be at your absolute best as a team. That’s the goal.” Chun believes that the current window causes situations that are bad for players, coaches, and fans. “As a sport, if we’re not prioritizing the playoffs, the national championship game, the postseason, and not have all this player movement happening, because it’s not great for — it’s terrible for the player,” Chun said. “I think it puts the coaches that are participating in the playoffs in an odd spot.” While talking about the role academic calendar in college football may induce some eye rolls, there are different timelines for quarter and semester schools that add difficulty in finding a transfer portal window that impacts all schools equally. For the 2025-26 school year, UW’s winter quarter begins January 5\. A change to a portal that opens after the national championship game is an issue for schools like Washington, because it’ll be two weeks into a 10-week term before a player could even step into the portal. The deadline for players to declare for the NFL draft is also a factor in the winter. For 2025, that date was January 15, though players participating in the CFP Championship game had until January 24\. The new revenue share model will place greater importance on coaches knowing exactly who’s declaring and who’s returning. With winter quarter ending March 20, Washington would benefit from a March window. Meanwhile, Washington State University's spring semester begins January 12 and ends May 8\. A spring window complicates spring football for semester schools. Though it may be years down the road, college football may be headed toward the elimination of spring football altogether. Instead, teams would adopt more of an NFL model, with a shorter spring minicamp followed by a longer summer/fall camp that begins sometime in July — when no schools are in regular session. With spring football games disappearing at many institutions, it may be an easy shift within the next few years. “We fail in college football because we keep tweaking and tweaking the old environment,” Chun said. “I think, with this revenue \[share\], with this house settlement, we’ve got to take a holistic view of what is the calendar and how do we set ourselves up for success in college football.”