"To review: millionaire coaches can switch schools when and how they’d like — even twice in one month! — but high school athletes who were pressured into early commitments are tied to their schools."
This is not accurate. The coaches have to pay a penalty to break the contract, millions of dollars for elite coaches. In some cases, their new teams will pay the penalty. Some lower tier coaches get trapped by long-term contracts they cannot afford to break. The players can break their contracts. Slavery is not allowed. The price for breaking their contract is sitting out a year.
For most hs players, early signing is a plus since they can get the anxiety of recruiting behind them and focus on graduating. If players were allowed to break those contracts, there would be chaos. Players should sign with a school, not a coach. If they aren't sure they should not sign and take their chances a spot will still be open later on.
I don't disagree with either of your points. A player should always be choosing a school, not coach(certainly not a coordinator). And I don't think there needs to be, or will be any changes to the players and their being locked in. The more we cave on that, the more these kids will just approach the whole recruiting process as a joke,which we're already seeing.
I just wonder how many of these cases it will take before there's a backlash. We could have 2 or more this year. To the first point, I've always felt that he NCAA kind of looks the other way in these resigning/firings because the player gets at least partially what they signed on for in terms of staff. The fact that some of these kids will never even see that coach again is pretty extreme, imo.
So basically, I don't think they'll relax restrictions on transfers. Rather, I think that if this becomes an annual thing, and especially if a bigger name like Saban gets burned(like the Safety he lost back to Mich this year), it may kill the ESD.