(03-16-2021 08:39 AM)TDenverFan Wrote:  I think allowing 1 transfer penalty free is a good thing for students. I agree someone playing at a new college every year likely isn't going to graduate, but letting players transfer once seems reasonable. I had plenty of friends at W&M who transferred in from other colleges, we don't hold it against non-athletes when they transfer. And if coaches are allowed to move without penalty (Like our friend Marion who has coached at 10 schools in 11 years), I think athletes should get one freebie too.

Right. You have 18 year olds making a decision about their collegiate career based on whatever a coach sells them, regardless of what happens when they get to school. This gives players a little leverage back, so if they aren't getting used right or are sold a bill of goods by low character coaches, they can do something about it without losing one of their only playing years. This rule means that coaches have to be accountable also. Go to Alabama and then get over-recruited after your freshman year? Come on over to ODU and be a star. Coach said you'd be playing 3 and D and then stuck you in the low post? Find a place that lets you be you. Sign on with a team and find out you don't like any of the players? Find a place you can be part of the team.