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2016 Neb. L. Rev. Bulletin 1 (2016)

handle is hein.journals/nelrvbu2016 and id is 1 raw text is: NCAA TRANSFER RESTRAINTS: FREE AGENCY FOR COLLEGE PLAYERS? MICHAEL H. LEROY PROFESSOR, SCHOOL OF LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS AND COLLEGE OF LAW UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN I. INTRODUCTION Schools frequently announce the hiring of new head coaches with great fanfare and excitement. But for some players, the new hire means their playing days are over at that school, and possibly forever. The root cause of this problem is the billions of dollars in revenue that fuel D-I football and basketball competition, and the spillover benefits for schools that win conference titles and compete for national championships. Alumni give more money to winners than losers. Applications also rise in quantity and quality for championship schools. To make this happen, some schools plow between four and seven million dollars a year into head coaching jobs, and more than one million dollars a year to elite assistant coaches. The NCAA won't admit it, but its rules mean that some student-athletes pay a big personal price for these football program makeovers. The timing of coaching changes in football-usually occurring in late November or December-gives unwanted players little opportunity to transfer to a suitable academic program. These castoffs move on silently, often to worse situations. They must find new schools with openings that match their position, graduating class, and playmaking skills. Adding irony and insult, new coaches are sometimes hired for larger salaries than departing ones. Aside from the bad optics of running off players into academic and football uncertainty, the brew of glory-seeking and coaching churn incentivizes new coaches to get rid of the players who got their last coach fired. II. BACKGROUND

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