I would like this rule & it should be enforced once the next portal window opens, I think it would lower the transfers.
What's next teams are going to be able to make trades?
This game is becoming more and more like a professional game, looking at what it's become the past few years the game was fine the way it was.
I mean, it was hard to justify players getting neither paid nor (in many cases) a credible education (b/c football factories funnel them into bullshit majors, and now online "school.") Especially given the insane money sloshing around in the sport. I'm fine with them getting paid.
But I agree things have gone too far in the wrong direction as relates to transfers. It seems nearly impossible to build a roster now - which, I guess boo hoo for the coaches - but also, as the Colorado experience shows, players often have little security either. It's much more acceptable to push underperforming players out than it used to be. That's not cool.
Oddly enough I think all this largely benefits Notre Dame. We seem competitive on the NIL front now, as we should be. We generally don't push players out, at least not before they graduate. But also players who come to Notre Dame by and large know and appreciate what Notre Dame is about, and appear (so far) less likely to jump just because some other school offers them a little more money. This helps us keep guys for three or four years and develop experienced, cohesive teams, which at the end of the day is still how you win games in college football.
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