Last summer, while reporting on a story about graduate transfers in college football, I discovered something striking: Many of the coaches who agreed to talk to me really wanted to talk. It wasn’t just about graduate students either, but about all transfers across revenue sports. And though it wasn’t particularly relevant to my story, I listened as they allowed their minds to wander to a place where movement could go on uninhabited, without the current requirement that transfers of the non-graduate variety sit out a year at their new schools.
What was most interesting about this jog in the conversation wasn’t the coaches’ thoughts—although most were against such a change—but that they seemed to have such thoughts at all, ideas about what they might do should such a change become reality.