Transfer fees for the transfer portal. Good idea or bad?

While I do not follow, nor understand completely international soccer. One thing that has become readily apparent is much like in European football especially the British football pyramid. CFB and men’s basketball is headed or almost at a point, where there are conferences that either have (The top flight) and those that have not. This is not just to look out for smaller schools or those in lesser conferences but talking with a friend that is maybe one of the less than 10 die hard Tulane supporters. He knows Sumrall will get poached, but it’s not just when but how much of the team is gutted and then how much will it cost in NIL to bring in a new coach and pay the new players is the burden.

As many know, finishing second or third in recruiting high school athletes is more important than ever because, if or when, they jump in the portal after a year or two. That relationship is not only already built. The connections to the “advisors”, agents, family members, and handlers is there. Just as in soccer, with their multiple transfer windows, and smaller clubs losing top end talent when it is time. If there was a transfer fee that is paid by the new schools collective on top of the new NIL deal for the transfer players. The number I would suggest is 33% of the initial first year package. So for a $100k deal. The new schools collective would transfer or pay $33k to the school from which a player transferred. Not only would it help the have nots, but potentially keep more players at their current schools.