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I'm going to respectfully disagree w you guys.
Players sign an LOI to play at a SCHOOL....they do not sign an LOI to play for a COACH. Period. A coach is an employee, a student is not. A coach can leave w/ no penalty....but he can also be fired. A player cannot be "fired".
Imagine a scenario where a beloved coach leaves for another school and 8, 10, 12 players decide to transfer to that coach's new school.....then the new coach shows up and another 4, 6, 10 players don't like the new coach and decide to transfer. That school essentially will have been given the death penalty and will be forced to play w/ a 50-60 man roster.
You could see 30 players transfer in one season at some schools, especially when a new coach arrives.
PJ Fleck is a good example; he left Western Michigan and is now at Minnesota. 5 of his WM commit's flipped to Minnesota - now, that's not transferring, but they did not sign w/ WM. There was also reports that PJ Fleck himself reached out to WM players to transfer to Minn:
https://www.hustlebelt.com/2017/2/2...rs-michigan-broncos-ncaa-college-football-mac
Other scenario's could follow;
-An entire position group doesn't like the new DB coach....so they ALL transfer.
-A position coach leaves for another school.....and half his position group transfers into the new school.
I bet there's a Swamp Donkey doppelgänger - say "Gopher Pecker" - on Minnesota's message boards fuming that he's turning them into a MAC school.