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Message: [QUOTE="Fairfield Fan, post: 2662621, member: 6911"] Well, this is a national issue, which is why several of the power conferences recently changed their rules, a move approved by the NCAA, to guarantee scholarships for four years, not one. Think of injuries. If a kid gets a bad knee injury, or a second ACL tear, for example, the sort of thing endemic to football, that kid is vulnerable to having his scholarship cancelled. Can't recover from a concussion? Not a great player to begin with? There goes the scholarship. And this university is doing exactly the sort of thing that makes a guarantee essential. It was arbitrary (the kids didn't approve the firing or hiring of that coach), it's punitive, and it can be devastating for the academic success of the student-athlete. If a kid loses his scholarship at Duke and doesn't have much in terms of family financial means, he's out of that school. And that is wrong. [/QUOTE]