Even more so in athletic leagues. Unfortunately competitive balance in college athletics has always been skewed because there’s no draft. Now throw in unlimited transfers and payments and it has become chaos.
After the North Carolina case the NCAA can’t even enforce academic requirements. When was the last time you heard of a player being academically ineligible? With regard to transfers, all universities are on a semester or quarter system that breaks for the holidays. What’s to stop a basketball player from transferring after fall semester and joining a rival at the start of the conference season? Say Kansas’ PG goes down with an injury in December, is there anything stopping them from offering a bag of cash to Oklahoma State’s PG to enroll in January and switch teams? It sounds cynical but it’s a serious question with where this is headed?
