The Chloe Jackson affair was unique. The first that we heard that she was considering transfer was when she announced she was visiting Baylor. It was as though she looked at the Baylor roster, noticed that they didn't have a guard returning, and thought she could win a championship by going to Baylor. If we begin to see that type of transfer occurring, it may end in restrictions on graduate transfers. Was she actually being recruited? How did that go down so rapidly with no other schools involved?
I suspect that when we didn't sign either of the two interior players from JC that we were looking at, it meant that we had decided to stick with highschool recruits. Aspen and Nydia may be better prospects than the JC people we were looking at, even if only for one year. We were looking at a transfer guard. But, that seems to have gone by the wayside as well. Unless you get a really top star, or really want to fill a void for one year, that may be more of a roster-filling technique than anything else. Most of the graduate transfers are going from nowhere to somewhere else. Notre Dame may have got lucky, and she wasn't really a grad transfer, was just treated as such by the NCAA.
The biggest name that I've heard might visit OU on a transfer basis was a kid who averaged about 3 points per game. She was a major HS recruit. Just wasn't all that productive.