Sara spoke last month about allowing college players to leave if their coaches do. This proposal has been getting a bunch of press recently -- from folks like Bilas and Vitale at ESPN, and most recently from Rhoden at the Times. Today, Sam Eifling at Slate makes the counter-argument.

His main worry, though, is about players following their coaches, creating a mercenary system where schools essentially buy a set of coach and players. But the solution to this is obvious -- allow players to leave if their coaches do, but don't allow them to follow their coach. In other words, they can transfer to any school but that one. In fact, this is the very proposal that everyone's been talking about. So I'm not sure what Eifling is talking about...