Personally I see no issue with just allowing kids to transfer whenever they want. We’re already seeing it be effective at freeing up scholarships for kids that are willing to endure some adversity.
I think the more kids you have enter the transfer portal for bad reasons, getting lost in the transfer portal - the better it is for college sports.
I’ve never understood the benefit to anyone trying to force kids to stay somewhere. It’s worse for the team and it sucks for kids that would be good enough to deserve a scholarship if it wasn’t for a handful of guys that would leave in a second if they were allowed to by the rules.
Every coach I’ve listened to bitch and moan about it, is rooted in reasons that are their own fault. “You can’t even hold a kid accountable now because he’ll run off and go somewhere else”, Well coach, sounds like your staff didn’t do their recruiting homework and find kids that are capable of taking criticism or you suck at constructively criticizing your players. Level up your recruiting game or coaching game - now you have an edge over programs that don’t.