I feel like you'd be doing yourself a disservice if you didn't talk to friends at other schools if you were thinking of transferring especially if you're on scholarship. I wouldn't transfer away from a free college education unless I knew with 100% certainty that I had a landing spot that would offer the same, at a minimum, as my prior school. But hey, that's me.Kids talk to each other ALL THE TIME. I could absolutely see a player talking to someone from another team if he thought he might want to play elsewhere.
In fact, it’s harder for me to think that a player who is unhappy would say, “I’m not gonna talk to anybody until after my season is over.” I don’t believe for a second that’s how it went down with Wandale, for example… he was talking with people long before the end of the season about returning to Kentucky.
Just my thoughts.