re: NCAA about to change transfer rules

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immediate eligibility

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Not immediate transfers. There will still be a window.

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Keep telling yourself that

All these rules changes came about because someone took the NCAA to court and beat them. NIL money, transferring without sitting out a year, etc.

You now have immediate eligibility, if you are academically up to par. With that rule in place, someone is going to swap schools during the season- enroll in a different school in January in basketball is the obvious choice; they will challenge the NCAA because academics are semesters, not sports seasons, will meet the stated criteria, and win. And then, it will become commonplace within a year to see multiple people do it.

A best-case scenario is that the "haves" like the SEC start setting up feeder schools; LSU can "call up" a guard or forward from Nicholls, etc. They might also process lower bench players to said schools, to meet scholarship limits... IF you even bother with scholarships at this point. You could just have a walk-on get NIL deals to match scholarships in cost, plus whatever else he can make. Chuck Oliver today pointed out that BYU started lining up NIL deals for walkons (completely covering room and board) a month after NIL became legal. They currently have a roster of over 130, counting both walkons and scholarship players... none of which pay a penny of their own in tuition, room and board, etc.
As he specifically stated, LSU certainly has that same ability, to where (for example) having 89 guys on scholarship is not an issue. The limit is 85, but anyone over that limit will still get a free ride, it will just have a different name. And there's no rule that states you have to be a scholarship guy to play, or start.