If you are looking to be more informed about the present and future of FCS football and how the Jackrabbits and Coyotese fit in it — this season and beyond — this is a deep dive that should leave you satisfied. 

Remarkably, the power brokers from the SEC just might give "the little guys" in the FCS an enormous boost in a seismic college football rule change.

At the SEC spring meetings Tuesday, Georgia coach Kirby Smart railed against the spring transfer portal window and called for college football to scale back the number of portal windows in a year from two to one, with January making the most sense to him. 

Presently, athletes can enter the portal either in December (Dec. 9–28) or after spring practices (April 16–25). Smart argues that this system creates year-round uncertainty for coaches and players alike.

This especially includes those who coach and play in the FCS. South Dakota, one of the top FCS programs in the nation, lost several players in that spring window — including five all-conference players — leaving the Coyotes to scramble into the portal and bring in replacements from both the FBS and FCS.

But how much would transfer portal reform in Smart's mold help FCS schools? 

HERO Sports senior FCS analyst Sam Herder joins Happy Hour host John Gaskins to answer that question and so many more national and regional FCS issues that directly affect USD and South Dakota State. Topics covered in Herder's hour-long conversation include:

• How do SDSU, NDSU, and USD stack up nationally now that most transfers are in place?
• Who will be the most immediately impactful transfers who just joined those schools?
• Which FCS team benefitted the most — quantity and quality — from FBS transfers?
• FBS transfers vs. FCS transfers to FCS teams — which tend to make a stronger impact?
• What is the latest in Sacramento State's bid to move up to FBS?
• Why is it difficult for FCS teams to be accepted into FBS conferences?
• Are NDSU and SDSU more likely to move up to FBS or stay put in FCS?
• What or who is impacted the most from the Missouri Valley Football Conference's new "partnership" with both the Missouri Valley Conference and Summit League?