I will admit when I posted that, I hadn’t reade the full article and was only going by the summary. It makes more sense. I generally don’t trust the NCAA, and honestly don’t view them as having any general integrity. Upon further investigation, I found the students who do leave will be losing their scholarships. They will either lose the scholarship and have to pay as a walk-on at their new school or, if the new school gives them a scholarship, it will come from a scholarship from another student. So maybe the NCAA should have taken some extra money to cover that, because it still seems to me that the players who had nothing to do with this are getting screwed.
Not really. A gaining school will have to have a scholarship to give. Athletic scholarships open all the time for a variety of reasons, rarely does a recruiting class move all the way through their eligibility intact. Say a very talented athlete wants to transfer to UNC. They will no doubt have a couple of slots available without stripping an scholarship from a current athlete.
A PSU player who may not have developed into the type of athlete everyone projected will be able to leave the PSU team and heep his scholarship at PSU.