Coaches make millions and are pretty much free to follow the money wherever it might lead them. The players who make them wealthy should have the same rights. If they feel the need to transfer to another program that might improve their chances of making it to the next level, they should be allowed to go.....
Well, the coaches have a job. They're professionals. These kids are going to school. The coaches make their money because they provide wins for a team sport. This is not a pro football audition, this is frigging school and a commitment has been made by both parties. Maybe it should be a contract.
Does a star athlete build up the school's marketability and attendance some? Not sure, but if it does then does the school take a loss when a kid transfers? What are those remedies for loss? Why are there academic requirements then anyway? Apparently the education part is just fluff. Well, actually it likely is for some of these star athletes who have their work done by others anyway...lol.
The coaches are making money because they increase the kids marketability and the school's marketability and also make sure these kids have fun and get their education. They do this by enforcing rules (academic and otherwise) to ensure they are rewarded with playing time. They increase their marketability by surrounding them with the other players and structure for the kids to show those talents if they're good enough to make that money.
Further, these kids that are going to money are doing so on the backs of other kids who by and large aren't going to. Where's their money? I get it, they can make more money on the backs of more talented support casts.
What next, instead of a kid committing to a school, they just commit to playing football and are mercenaries? And with the 24th pick in the country, Nebraska picks Jim Shoe out of IMGs twin sister academy in California?
Most of these kids will get what they deserve by transferring thinking they're special as far as athletics. The same participation trophies they got by having lawnmower and helicopter parents that have crippled the education system. Hopefully they'll learn then to deal with adversity at some point. Hopefully they'll get their degree.
I'd be curious to see how many kids in the league transferred vs. those who didn’t.
College sports is definitely letting the genie out of the bottle. Hell, highschool athletics is on that trajectory with sports related transfers.
Yep, most of what I posted is tongue in cheek, has some contradictions and vitriolic statements, and is largely talking out my posterior. It felt good though.