This is just the same thing as one of us changing jobs. Companies/schools don't REALLY care about their employees in general, thus employees only care so much about their company/school. Companies started it with massive layoffs, and players can be asked to leave as well. The players just finally have a choice. Personally I prefer this to the dictatorships of past coaches, Lloyd Eaton comes to mind for UW. But yeah, we need balance, it will take time to find it.
We went from one extreme to the other. We correctly recognized that college athletes had zero commercial rights, limited mobility, and over restrictive regulations...so we solved that by giving them a poorly regulated financial market in NIL, unlimited transfers, and almost no guardrails at all. All we did was trade one set of problems for another.
I have no inside knowledge to back this up, but a guy like Dennis needs to make his money now. His size is a huge disadvantage to playing in the NBA. He's got very high metrics. He's proven to be an effective player in a good college conference. I would guess that he's going to try to earn as much as he can in the NCAA because if he does play professionally, it will be overseas in a smaller league where he'll be making less than 6 figures a season.
