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[QUOTE="Louie and Bouie, post: 4060383, member: 793"]
The arguments based in concern for the student athlete are so patronizing.  How many fans worry about the well-being of the student more than what they do on the field?  I'd hazard a guess its a small number if people are being honest.

Its interesting to see the twisted logic to say the transfer rule is bad for the players that are freely choosing to use the rules to their perceived advantage and make their own individual life choice.  Or is that really not the argument and its more of a paternalistic view that "we" know what's better for individuals we have never met.  The concerns over a strangers academic progress and future rings hollow in my opinion.  Its very paternalistic and anti-freedom of choice.  Its interesting that I haven't heard many (or any) players come out against the new transfer rule or the transfer portal.

If the actual objection is really about the game of college football and its "ruination" due to the new transfer rule I'd say at least that argument is genuine.  However, keeping the old system of restrictions on players to benefit the universities alone (as there was no benefit to players with the prior rule) is fundamentally unfair.

The sham of student-athlete at the highest levels of DI sports has been exposed and like any change to inequitable systems in the past there will be much resistance from those affected negatively.  That resistance doesn't mean its a negative in my opinion.

Anyway, my two pennies.
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