Oooof… Baylor Gutted [Other Teams' Portal Activity 2025]

They still have admissions and academic eligibility requirements.

The pros have employment contracts to limit movement. The colleges are fine having the boosters foot the bill and have no interest in making the athletes employees, at least not at this time. Employees with employment contracts is the way to restrict movement. Even what they’re trying to do with the house settlement, where the schools will pay directly will still be endorsements, NIL deals, not contracts to play sports.

They tried the one free transfer and then you sit. Courts said no.

 

You don't restrict the movement. You restrict the eligibility.

 

They did exactly what you want. They gave the kids one freebie and then continued to enforce the one year sit out rule after that, unless you are moving as a grad transfer. The kids that wanted to move more than once without graduating sued, repeatedly, and won every time until the ncaa removed the rule and just said they had to move during certain windows. That, along with only having four years of eligibility, continue to be challenged.

Movement-eligibility is semantics. They were never restricting anyone from transferring academically. If they aren’t trying to continue to play sports, they could always move around just like any other student.