Lions, and tigers and bears oh my, and then there are transfers

Dan Wolken's latest has Akron Coach Terry Bowden offering some sanity about the transfer and the graduate transfer "epidemic" --

"But leave it to Akron coach Terry Bowden, who inherited his father's gift of plain-speaking populism if nothing else, to see this madness the same way as most people who haven't been entrenched in the bubble of college sports.

"They should let (transfers) play right away everywhere," Bowden said. "They shouldn't have to sit. The coaches leave. If we can go get a million-dollar contract somewhere else, why can't the player leave? It's no different than schools that want to get rid of a coach or a coach that wants to leave in the middle of his five-year contract. Nobody stops them. I don't think it's right."

Why should players be restricted when coaches and ADs aren't? Try dollars and cents, obviously more the latter, plus an antiquated power structure.