I’m not thrilled with what I’m seeing in the direction college football is heading. Right now it’s the best sports product in the nation and I fear that bubble could burst with what appears to be the direction of unrestricted free agency.
Even in the NFL, there is restricted free agency where a team receives some sort of compensation when a play gets traded.
There has to be some type of reasonable balance where the school that invested a ton of resources to get a recruit to campus has protection and a player also has reasonable protection at his school if what he signed up for no longer exists.
Graduation certainly be a one trigger for release. If a player can graduate in 3 years I have no problem with him taking his talents elsewhere if he feels there is a better opportunity.
I think the schools that are at the biggest risk from really being hurt are Group of 5 Programs that developed that 2-3 star player into a stud and some big name University scoops him up.
I think there is a lot of good thoughts to be tossed around on this issue. Some will have a pro-player point of view and other will be pro-school.