A long time ago, college sports were set up to avoid re-occurring recruiting battles. There would be one before the player picked a school, then the negatives to changing schools (sit out periods) were high enough that few players transferred.
Now, with the portal, it's basically free agency, and a continued recruiting battle between schools for the same players, even after signing. Better for the players, with the downside to fans losing interest if there's a constant churn of one or two year players coming in.
For many years there's been little in the way of a feedback loop to sports. Sports teams and leagues have done what they wanted, and either the fans haven't minded or haven't minded enough to cause the team or league or school to change things around. Look at Ad-Zillow-tron. 185 decibels of the most annoying ads possible. No fan enjoys it, yet has the school gotten rid of it? Nope, still there, loud as ever.
Till there is financial push back by the fans, fan's are the least of the concern of any sport.
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Agree x 2
Last edited: Aug 11, 2020