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It's summertime, so if I could please indulge in elaborating on a point
already discussed, the purists will kindly forgive me ....
Let's just say, for purposes of illustration, that a school hands
out only full scholarships. Then, through an unfortunate *accounting*
error -- or the untimely employment of BC math -- promises a total
of 20 scholarships for the upcoming season. Promises them in writing.
(Having gone to Tech, I never did trust those liberal arts schools.:-)
Let's also say that only 2 of the 20 are promised to incoming freshmen.
The team, as I understand it, has spots open for 18 scholarship players
and X number of non-scholarship players. Why not let the two freshmen (if
they want to) compete for one of the 18 scholarship places on the team?
I had thought that was commonly the situation in football in Div. 1-A.
Don't most schools at any given time have several scholarship players
redshirting in football? What I'm interested in knowing, is there a rule
that prevents this?
In any event, I agree with Hendrickson on several aspects of his
proposed punishment of abusive institutions. I don't know about a ban on post-
season play since that hurts the players, but forfeiture of post-season
revenues (beyond costs), fines, compensation to the victimized players,
and allowing the players to go elsewhere w/o having to sit out a year
-- would all seem justified.
-- Dick Tuthill
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