when he recruited the Smith kid who was his leading tackler in 2016. Then unleashed a flood of 'po me sympathy for the pore ole starter @ Alabama who jess wanted a different major. Lol! Likely hurt Smith who didn't get drafted as he probably would have coming out of the Bama program. But that's not the point. The point is overall this hurts the sport. What has separated CFB from BB is the long term commitment from programs to a player and that commitment being repaid by a productive 4 or 5th year athlete.

Now Jeremy has recruited a guy for his OL off the Alabama team who was slated to be the center this year til he had a knee last year and missed all but the first three games. This guy will likely play in the NFL in a couple of years and you can believe Saban is pizzed just like he was @ Kirbs. He may have wound up the UA starting center this fall since he is just now getting over the knee. Obviously Alabama nor Saban needs no sympathy but football is supposed to be above the slimy pit that is BB so yeah the CFB coaches have generally had a better rep and fans a better feeling about their FB team and players. IE: the sold out stadiums.

Well you say that's good for the guy. Maybe. Who knows. But it's bad for college football and just one more bite out of the apple. In several ways. First schools recruit kids that need development. And coaching. Then they spend almost 4 years with a guy and when he gets on the cusp of playing someone recruits your roster where they are short and the guy transfers to a school in same league. And the SEC set the precedent.
After the school has spent a fortune getting him graduated and developed into a player for someone else. This is an SEC problem.

Message: leave the undeveloped alone and only take guys ready. Secondly players must have graduated to transfer so slow play their educational progress. And say what you will but Nick Saban does about as good as it gets pushing his guys that are solid to finish school and graduate. And a shocking number of Saban's guys do so in 3 years. So why push, push, push to get your guys graduated when it will bite you in the butt. And lastly this only adds to the slide off into CBB territory with the transfers and the never stopping recruiting guys even after they sign.

What goes around comes around and Kirby will have some issues in the future with schools continuing to recruit his players with the way he is building. And that makes them hard to coach! And lose focus and become negative factors internally. He will have coaches on his staff developing relationships then taking jobs elsewhere and whispering in the ears of players. Smith was a tipping point. And you can believe JP will have the same issues since he is going to build UT.

Auburn was accused for years for the same by Georgia. Not stopping recruiting them. And contacting them after they were in school and their parents. Setting the stage for some of Richt's problems with keeping his players focus on working. Suddenly Georgia, who complained about AU turned around and did the same and probably set the stage for a lot more of it. And who knows if AU was guilty. No doubt Kirby and Pruitt are. At least AU took the transfers after the players were in trouble and early on and sat them down a year to get their careers and academics in order. And went by the league rules which is no transfers among league schools without contingencies.