(11-02-2018 01:04 AM)Stugray2 Wrote:  In no other student activity, besides sports, is there such a restriction. f you come to a school to major in fine arts and you discover that the professors have a different approach or you just don't work with them well or maybe just don't like them, then you are free to transfer to any other school immediately. If you want to play in band and they have to many and you don't make the cut, you can transfer to any school you want for band. And i am sure many of you have started at a new job only to discover you were sold a bill of goods about what you would be doing or even who you'd be working for, so you do a 180 or jump ship as quick as possible with no consequences, beyond burning a bridge at the employer you didn't like. But for athletics they wont let you.

To make it a more fair comparison you have to be a fine arts student on scholarship - then you are free to leave if you don’t like the professors but you’ll lose your scholarship. Other universities aren’t just going to give you the same scholarship. Nor do you have schools trying to poach to be a student since you’re currently enrolled at a different institution.

The band analogy doesn’t quite fit because if the basketball player lost his scholarship he could transfer and be granted the release - much like the band student transferring schools to make a band (and scholarship).