It's not college free agency, you see, because the NCAA is about promoting amateur athletics.

The grad transfer rule is a way to free students from a system that would have forced them into a situation where their preferred academic paths were unavailable.

Anybody who thinks it is a way for programs to plug talent gaps and give student athletes a last shot at playing time is simply missing the point.

they academically set out to do to have the option to go to grad school somewhere else, like any other student.