Well, yes and no! I know you are basically dramatizing your frustration but the major issue with the NCAA is it's lack of consistency in the transfer rules mostly regarding the two revenue sports-Football and Men's Basketball. The big money, booster money, agent money and sponsor money are all potential disasters for the "amateurism" that is supposed to occur but is already running rampant in these two sports.
I think the NCAA sanctions 40 sports and the vast majority do not have any or very limited regulations on transfers. The effort this working group is trying to do is ensure integrity on the financial aid obligations for both the school and the athlete to avoid "non-student" athletes from "gaming/scamming" the system and making a mockery of higher education. Hence the 3.0 GPA to be allowed to play at a new school without missing/sitting out a season.
There has to be consistency to the rules and to the general student population (students regularly transfer freely and significantly more often than athletes do).
Virtually all of these student-athletes will NOT be going professional so the education component and participation aspect are two of the main factors the committee is trying to address before a lawsuit dictates its ruling on them.
There are a couple of widely held misconceptions in your post. The largest of which is that transfer rates regarding football which is very low.
Transfer Rate Averages and Trends
A second widely held misconception is the transfer rates of scholarship athletes versus non-athletes.
"A 2015 report by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center found that more than a third of college students transfer and that nearly half of those do it more than once."
That second transfer which is very rare for athletes is the key to understanding the differences in transfer rates between athletes and non-athletes.
Athletic transfers, although very well publicized, amounts to much to do about nothing when you look at the bigger picture or institution's view. A state school like UCONN with an undergraduate enrolment of ~ 20, 000 has to worry about 6,600 of those students transferring before graduation. UCONN competes in 20 sports and has a total of 719 student athletes: 348 men and 371 women on a yearly basis. Of UCONN 719 student Athletes only 140 are on fully endowed scholarships divided evenly between men and women as required by Title IX. So while UCONN has to worry about thousands of kids transferring in and out each year across all sports UCONN can anticipate ~10 transfers that is due solely to athletics.
One last misconception regarding revenue generating sports vs nonrevenue sports or men vs women. Historically the trend is that the men were transferring at a higher rate that women. That trend reversed itself in 2015 and Women are now transferring at a higher rate than men from 4 year institutions to other 4 year institutions when averaged across all sports. Don't know what to make of this particular trend but revenue generating sports does not seem to be an explanation.
This link contains some interesting transfer trends including all the ones mentioned above.
Transfer Rate Averages and Trends
