I guess my question is how does it align with the scholarship money and academic eligibility? Seems like the easy way to police this would be to eliminate these kids from being eligible at the next stop, or at least forcing them to pay tuition for the full semester and revoking their scholarship.
Example - athletic scholarship requires full participation for each calendar year, or until graduation….whichever comes sooner. If you quit outside of the designated transfer portal windows, scholarship is revoked and all tuition for at least the previous calendar year must be repaid. Or, scholarship athletes are not granted an early academic withdrawal date. If they enroll at all, they must finish the semester. If they do not, they fail all coursework, and are automatically ineligible at the next stop. So, if someone wants to quit midseason but still retain eligibility, they gotta pay their own way for at least the current and previous semester, and they have to stay enrolled as full time students and pass their classes.