For years now, college basketball coaches across the country have been having to handle the fact one of their players can pick up and decide to transfer in the middle of the season. It is something football coaches have not had to worry about, until last year.
In 2018, the NCAA changed its redshirt rules which subsequently changed the way players, who may feel they are not playing enough, viewed transferring to another school. The NCAA also loosened its transfer rules, allowing players more freedom to go where they want to go.
Last year, after the fourth game of the season, Clemson became the first team to feel the effects of the new rules, when former quarterback Kelly Bryant left the program once he was told Trevor Lawrence was going to be the starting quarterback for their Week 5 game against Syracuse.