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Message: [QUOTE="Fairfield Fan, post: 2662655, member: 6911"] Here's a good synopsis of the landscape from 2015. Note the practice of "running off" athletes. [URL="https://www.news-press.com/story/sports/college/fgcu/2015/10/16/college-sports-scholarships-not-four-year-guarantees/74009542/"]College sports: Scholarships not four-year guarantees[/URL] "But even without such formal definitions, the pressure to win creates a scenario where athletes not uncommonly are “run off,” often disappearing from rosters without much fuss unless a complaint is made. 'They’ve been doing it forever. But they can’t do it anymore at that level,' FGCU athletic director Ken Kavanagh said of the new rules preventing autonomy conference programs from dismissing players for athletic reasons, a practice he said he and many programs don’t permit. 'They now have a rule that I’ve been following for 20 years. And not just me, a lot of people have been following. At autonomy schools, there’s some who have always been playing by this same ground rule, too. But there’s a lot that haven’t. And they’re the ones (where) you see stories of kids that got run off.'.. "Because Ivy League schools do not permit athletic scholarships, and because Ivy member Columbia University states in writing that its financial aid is for four years, Cape Coral’s Rodney Hunter III feels good that his son is going to be covered for four years on the Lions basketball team. 'If he decided next week he didn’t want to play basketball, he’s still there and would still get the same money as a student,' said Hunter, whose son, Mariner High School graduate Rodney Hunter IV, is a freshman who’s receiving a package covering about 90 percent of his costs. 'Even if Coach (Kyle) Smith left, he’s going to be there.'” That's the kind of system that takes care of students and their families. Being "run off" is something that should be outlawed. Perhaps that's why America should go to the European system of professional development teams that pay salaries while training the young athletes. Eliminates fake degrees and the pretense that this is about education. Those 20 kids were "run off", and that shouldn't happen. [/QUOTE]

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