How to go about transferring from D2 to D1

Ideally, approach your current coach about it first and with the premise that you want to be at a bigger (or better, or whatever) school than wanting to go DII to DI. So, saying something (hopefully honest and true) like "UGA has a marketing major I am really interested in, and you know we don't" and beginning the conversation there. Obviously, you want to stress that the current school is a poor fit for you without insulting your current program. Moreover, if you've not really stood out and excelled in your current program, it's very hard to make an athletic-based argument for going to a DI instead.

But you can make an academic, regional, or major-based argument. Regardless, you need to enlist your current coach's help and owe it to him to let him know you're leaving first. He may be able to help you but also he needs to know he's losing someone and that spot will open. If you were redshirted and he's a good guy, he shouldn't take this too hard and should help insofar as he can under NCAA regs. Speaking of which, if you have not, read everything on the NCAA website on athlete transfers and recruiting now. You've just become a stakeholder in the arcane regs that govern the NCAA and differ for DI vs DII so you need to read up and understand what you can and cannot do, and what coaches can and cannot do.

Also, read this at once:

http://www.ncaa.org/student-athletes/current/want-transfer