NCAA Proposes Elimination of Transfer Limit for Student

Honestly, I don't like it.  I'm calling it a "national scope creep".  In theory, people go to college to learn.   A few are fortunate to have the skills to earn a college degree and play a sport.  A miniscule number have the god given talent to earn a degree and play professionally.   Truly, I don't understand why the focus is on the miniscule number of student athleties and not the 99% of regular people.   Why isn't the focus on the education, and the cost of the education which is out of control.    College athletes have an opportunity to transfer in a newly created portal with some losely worded conditions to transfer.   Now, everybody wants more.   Seriously?   I'm going to stop here, because I think this is just ridiculous and I feel a 30-minute rant coming......   

I think it is the beginning of the end for some programs.  Kids are going to have the ability to trade up each year that they have a good season.  Schools with money and NIL deals will constantly upgrade their staffs.  Bad for most kids and certainly for HS kids wanting to enter the arena.  Going to the same school for 4 years is going to become rare.  Top programs will be staffed with mostly older kids with experience.

Surely this is how it was before 2007?  And at that time, they thought it was terrible and put in the transfer-sit rule.  So what has changed?

I'll say what I said on the other thread:  football and basketball should just break away and be treated completely separately from the rest of the university.  In fact, does it even matter if those teams are affiliated with universities at all?  They would have the same set of fans even if they were entirely independent, and with unlimited transfers and revenue-sharing, the fiction that these are students is disappearing.