My college head coach left for an NFL job in the middle of a recruiting cycle. No penalty that mattered, just a bigger check. But when my teammate wanted to transfer closer to his sick mother, he had to sit out an entire year. The portal fixed some of that, but the principle stands: coaches have always been free agents and players were property with homework. Now that players can finally move, everyone acts shocked that college football looks professional. It looks professional because it's professional. Paying salaries just admits what the transfer portal, the TV deals, and the coaching carousel already proved. You can't run a free labor market for coaches and a company store for players and call it amateurism with a straight face.
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