Good luck to the young man. I don't have a problem with him transferring just the timing of it. The problem with quitting is after the first time it becomes much, much easier to do. Fortunately, in this situation he has the option to "quit". But as he gets further into life there will be things that quitting simply isn't an option. Again, good luck to him.
I appreciate your take on BB and I agree. I think we ought to take the high road as much as is possible.
I know I'll be in the minority here, based on the comments of this particular thread, but it's pretty hard to judge what he did without being in his shoes.
Like Buzzard said, I don't like the timing either, but IF you were in his shoes things would have been less clear than we are making this out to be.
I think his parents probably didn't help him navigate this as much as they should've, but (if I understand this correctly) doing what he did allowed him to play in about 75% of the games next year when, if he would have waited to the end of this year to transfer he would have had to sit out the entire season next year.
Again, I didn't like it and I didn't like the timing of it, but I can personally not like what he did but wish him well in the future (outside of the rare chance we play them).