Question on dismissing players
I'm just wondering if this is possible or has ever been done.
Say university X has recruited player #1 of class X for their team. Player #1 signs an LOI, comes to school for a year, decides they hate it there, and asks to be released so that they can transfer to university X's rival.
If university X were willing to eat one scholarship for four years, would the NCAA allow, or do they even have any say in, university X REFUSING to release player #1 from his scholarship?
In other words, once a player has signed an LOI and is being given the opportunity to play on the team if he wants, could the university essentially lock him up and prevent attrition and transfer?
ND try that two years ago?
No, Charlie Weis just ate the player and they had to schedule surgery to get him out.
...and then Weis sued his surgeons twice when he suffered some of the complications which are known to come with the procedure.
What complications that damn fupa?
the surgeons too
LOL that could cause some complications
ND wiped it from the records because it did not shine a good light on ND or Weis.
I believe so. You can also specify teams to which a player can not go and immediately receive a scholarship (like Miami did with Marve). At the end he was choosing between paying his way for a year at Tennessee or receiving a scholarship at Purdue.
Well, I thought so, but it doesn't seem like it's necessarily in the "student-athlete's best interest", as the NCAA claims to support, so I wasn't sure.
I think part of the reason is to prevent coaches from trying to recruit kids from other teams, or the best players from "lesser" teams transferring to bigger named programs once they blow up.