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[QUOTE="iri10, post: 5241706, member: 1781"]
By the standards of almost the entire previous history of college athletics, a move like this can't seen as anything other than cutthroat and unethical.

But here's the thing.  This new era changes all the rules, doesn't it?  Every college player is essentially a free agent, free to leave whenever they want so long as someone else will take them.  Even professional league contracts don't afford that level of freedom to their free agents.  As a result, players are no longer expected to have loyalty to their programs.  They must see to themselves to make the money they can.

The flip side of players having that sort of freedom is that coaching staffs are also less obligated to show loyalty to players they no longer feel they need.  They still have a balancing act to perform (a coach might not want to get a reputation for being ruthless to their own players), but when you boil away all of the pretty words, it's a much more cutthroat era, both ways.
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