Looks that way.
I think something will change at some point to keep young people from making bad decisions. I understand grad students - I taught two MBA students at a top ranked school (with much worse football than GT) who were good players at Harvard and Stanford as undergrads. Football paid for their two high caliber degrees.
Football gets you into a school you would (in many, not all cases) never see the inside of without sports and you bail to get more playing time? Less than 2% of college players go pro. Crazy.
Just read this in 247:
“Of the 480 Power Five scholarship players 247Sports studied from the 2019-20 cycle, only 26.5% of them stayed as a scholarship player on a P-5 roster. Another 26.3% signed with a G-5 program. Overall, 47.2% of P-5 scholarship athletes went to the FCS, junior college ranks or did not find a landing spot. Among the 826 FBS scholarship players 247Sports examined, only 37.8% stayed on the FBS level.”