It’s a side effect of the degree to which we all care about this silly sport, and the fact that schools have been recruiting marginal students who love the game more than class for decades. They know they de-facto can’t collude to bar scholarships to transfers anymore, so it is what it is. Every solution depends on artificially restricting the movement of certain students because someone claims to know what’s good for them, but doesn’t give two shits about schools poaching over club chess scholarships or offering merit aid to transferring non-athletes.

I’m all for a regime that controls movement, but they have to compensate the players to give up that flexibility. Otherwise, who among us wouldn’t go someplace we liked better to play the game we love either for the last time as a competitive athlete or to take one more bite at the apple of a professional future? I think you almost have to be a touch delusional to play up to your actual FBS potential, whatever that is.