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Obviously I’m overreacting, but losing our promising freshman to the portal after also losing like 90% of the starting offense would be…not ideal to say the least. Straw that breaks the camels back type move

The hits just keep coming.

I hear what you are saying, but I think the freedom here is really the freedom to choose to play football (or at least try to play if they have the ability and desire to) at a D-1 university or not with full knowledge of the conditions that may be placed on that choice. That freedom is not being constrained or taken away. I don't know if placing conditions on transfer is any different than requiring the athlete to enroll in school and meet certain academic requirements as a condition of participation, for example.

Why?

High school players don't have to sign a contract to play ball... If they can knock on doors and sell phonebooks, they should be able to make money on NIL (if available) without any kind of regulation.