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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Even with all that though, those athletes are an injury away from getting cut and there goes college.  I hope for their sakes the movement to guarantee scholarships for 4 years happens. [/quote]
Nope. Where do you people get your information? They can't cut you forgetting injured. And if you have a long-term injury, they red shirt you and still pay your tuition. The school makes a commitment to you when you sign for them. [/quote]

You actually are the one who is slightly mis-informed.  Technically they can under certain circumstances if the grant in aid package is year to year.  Most do not becuase it would create a negative perception in PR and recruiting and some individual schools have a policy forbidding it.  Now that schools are going to the 4 year package, that may change.  Most schools do not cut you outright but some coaches encourage you to transfer elsewhere by saying that you will never play, not in their plans, etc. because they know most kids want to play.  Whether you play or not, your scholarship would count against the limit, so there is incentive to encorage non-contributors to leave. For career-ending injuries, most schools get around it by having a separate scholarship pool for athletes who are no longer playing - it is considered non-athletic money so it does not count against the scholarship limit.

Signed,

former D1 assistant coach[/quote]

You're obviously more informed than me, just a fan.  But another dirty secret is the practice of "over recruiting" where schools offer more scholarships than they have available.  For example, football has 85 scholarships available- roughly 20 per year.  A team may offer 22 scholarships in anticipation of a few kids graduating, not making grades, or leaving the program in other ways.  If all 22 kids sign their letter of intent and only 20 kids leave, 2 kids are committed to that school but won't have a scholarship available.  So they can accept preferred walk on status (grey shirt) or go to another school.  However, the kid is committed by their LOI and by the time they find out the scholarship isn't available, there may be few scholarships at top programs left.

SEC schools are notorious for this practice- to my knowledge only Georgia has stated they won't over recruit.  The Big 10 has forbidden it as a practice.

Plus if kids are recruited to a school and the coach leaves (or is fired) the athlete-students cannot transfer without losing a year of eligibility.

It is a one-way binding contract that often is renewed on an annual basis.  [/quote]

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