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[QUOTE="Consigliere, post: 1806316, member: 559"]
Well, in spirit it's not really free agency. The contract is for the student athlete to attend a school for four years to get a degree and if he plays a sport he doesn't pay tuition or expenses. For fifth year transfers both sides have fulfilled their obligations. Now if the student wants to go on to graduate school and his current school does not offer the program of study he is interested in he can change schools and, if he has not exhausted his four years of eligibility, play a sport and attend for free. And active recruiting and coercion can only occur once a player announces and is granted his release. Yes, again in theory and spirit of the law.

Nothing wrong with that and truly supports the interest of the student athlete. I think Greg Paulus was the perfect example.

It gets a bit murkier when the program of study restriction is not policed and the driving factor is the athlete side of the equation. Not saying that a kid who has successfully completed a degree program should not have an opportunity to spend his last year on a bigger stage (Gillen) or at a program better suited to his skill level (Chino) but in this environment I am a bit more ambivalent.
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