[81alum]

I think this would be a disaster for Stanford.  Unscrupulous powerhouses who are "on top" could simply recruit the best players from bad teams, and many of these players could be willing to jump ship to be able to get a championship.  A team like Alabama could become an "all star" team that plucks the most promising sophomores and juniors from the rest of the competition.  The GPA requirement will be a joke, and the rich would just get richer. 

I'm reminded a little of South Carolina in WBB last year, who earned a national championship with Alisha Gray from North Carolina and Kaela Davis from Georgia Tech starting for them all year.  Without those transfers, South Carolina doesn't come close and we are in the championship round.  Multiply this if it becomes even easier to transfer.  Heck, Lili could have played against us last year if she didn't mind graduating from Notre Dame instead of Stanford.

Stanford won't benefit much and could be badly hurt.  Our transfer admissions standards and high retention rates will simply not let us take advantage of a free-for-all transfer system.  It also will dramatically weaken coaches in the eyes of their players.  This would be a good thing for abusive and unscrupulous coaches to lose power, but Stanford does not have coaches like that.  (It might undermine Mike Leach, who has had discontented players, and I would could that as a good thing.) 

[81alum]

I think this would be a disaster for Stanford.  Unscrupulous powerhouses who are "on top" could simply recruit the best players from bad teams, and many of these players could be willing to jump ship to be able to get a championship.  A team like Alabama could become an "all star" team that plucks the most promising sophomores and juniors from the rest of the competition.  The GPA requirement will be a joke, and the rich would just get richer. 

I'm reminded a little of South Carolina in WBB last year, who earned a national championship with Alisha Gray from North Carolina and Kaela Davis from Georgia Tech starting for them all year.  Without those transfers, South Carolina doesn't come close and we are in the championship round.  Multiply this if it becomes even easier to transfer.  Heck, Lili could have played against us last year if she didn't mind graduating from Notre Dame instead of Stanford.

Stanford won't benefit much and could be badly hurt.  Our transfer admissions standards and high retention rates will simply not let us take advantage of a free-for-all transfer system.  It also will dramatically weaken coaches in the eyes of their players.  This would be a good thing for abusive and unscrupulous coaches to lose power, but Stanford does not have coaches like that.  (It might undermine Mike Leach, who has had discontented players, and I would could that as a good thing.)