Dumb questions of the day?

[TheBigDA]

If scholarships are awarded on a yearly basis and not a four year basis, then why can't a player refuse a scholarship for an upcoming year? In doing this, he isn't under scholarship or obligation to the school or is he? If not, then why couldn't he freely go to another school? Does the NCAA/SEC have a bylaw against this? If so, what are the bylaws?

I guess my thinking in this is that the student is under contract with the school for a year and at the mercy of the school. What power does the student have against the school?

 

[Todd4State]

if I refuse a scholarship of any kind, my parents would've been pissed.



It's a NCAA rule that any athlete- walk-on or scholarship that goes to another school in the same division has to sit out a year. That's what keeps them from doing it.

 

[gravedigger]

the school should not be able to award that scholarship to anyone elseuntil the player it was pulled from becomes eligible at whatever school he chooses.

He goes to div II and can play the next year, good for them, they get to use it. He goes and sits athletically for a year, tough ****. You lose too.

Kid fails out. Scholarship open.

 

[Todd4State]

Our basketball team would be Jarvis and four walk-ons. And Swat would be a walk-on to.

 

[mstateglfr]

If scholarships are awarded on a yearly basis and not a four year basis, then why can't a player refuse a scholarship for an upcoming year? In doing this, he isn't under scholarship or obligation to the school or is he? If not, then why couldn't he freely go to another school? Does the NCAA/SEC have a bylaw against this? If so, what are the bylaws?

I guess my thinking in this is that the student is under contract with the school for a year and at the mercy of the school. What power does the student have against the school?

Hardly a dumb question. You just highlighted the biggest inequity in college sports.

The student athlete is at the mercy of the school and system almost every time. The schools(their representatives)essentially create the rules for the system, so they are going to make em work in their advantage.

An interesting example of this actually not taking place though happened last season with a player that was at UK. He was essentially forced out of the program, and the NCAA allowed him to play elsewhere right away because the transfer wasnt his choice. That was very good to see. No player should be forced out because they wont contribute, and then insultingly be forced to sit a year after transferring against their will.

But that sort of event is very much the minority.

What really kills me is that coaches can bounce around from program to program without a problem, yet their players are tied down to a program and it is incredibly difficult for them to go to a new program.
Total BS.