Stopped watching the NFL in 2017 -- looks like the same coming for FBS.

[AWS1022]

You left out the next sentence-

If a school plans to reduce or not renew a student-athlete’s aid, the school must notify the student-athlete in writing by July 1 and provide an opportunity to appeal. In most cases, coaches decide who receives a scholarship, the scholarship amount and whether it will be renewed.

And I can't remember any player ever having an appeal. If the coach doesn't want you, you don't want to be ther

But they do have a chance to appeal...that’s all I posted in my message.

 

[AWS1022]

College football players get free tuition, tutoring, clothes, food, 1st class accommodations, travel, gifts, coaching, and a $5k annual stipend. I'd hardly call them indentured servants.

Why some posters seems to think these kids are living in squalor is beyond me. They get a ton of sh!t whereas regular students get nothing.

 

[cjrugger]

But they do have a chance to appeal...that’s all I posted in my message.

Um ok. I think we all know that will never happen tho. I'm moving on, take care

 

[DingerzForDaze]

So if there’s no money involved, why do you think they have it in high school? Likely the same reason they have it in college.

I. DON'T. CARE. I don't know how many ways I can express it. I don't care if they think it prevents mass chaos. Or global warming. Or global thermal nuclear war. Or yeast infections.

If transfers without penalty were a reality, the system would adjust. Coaches and programs would manage.

Not that I care much, but I don't believe transfer rules are uniform across states for high schools. Maybe they are, but I think they differ between jurisdictions. If a kid wants to transfer to a private school because they have a better program, let him. If a kid's family wants to uproot themselves and move to another town to allow him to participate in that public school's athletics, let them. I don't LIKE that practice, and I sneer at those who do that, solely for athletics (rather than some legitimate other issues at another school), and if I play against a team that "recruits" like that I'm going to want to destroy them, but I'm not going to stop them from doing that. As long as they're actually residing there (if it's a public school), no problem. If a coach has to adjust because his star point guard moved to a rival school, oh well. If a kid gets bumped from his starting position because some hot shot comes in for his senior year, oh well.

Again, I'm all about making collegiate sports amateur again. My other suggestions would negate most of the nonsense that goes on in college sports, at this point. So, allowing kids to transfer without having to lose a year of precious eligibility would actually be contributing to that, instead of promoting this massive machine we've created, that steamrolls young adults into making "lasting" decisions about their future at ages 15, 16 and 17, with some silly penalty of a lose of a year of eligibility. Wah, it'll be too chaotic. Chaotic for whom? The folks paid millions upon millions upon millions to coach a game. They can suck it up, buttercups. I would MUCH rather "inconvenience" athletic directors and college coaches, who spend their time trying to sell children on the prospect of letting them coach the kids (i.e. win ball games and retain their jobs), than I would rather make a kid pay with a lost year of eligibility (or, in the alternative, stick it out where he's not happy), because, as it turns out, that 35-60 year old man whose job it is to sell me on his university/program, maybe didn't paint an accurate picture

 

[AWS1022]

I. DON'T. CARE. I don't know how many ways I can express it. I don't care if they think it prevents mass chaos. Or global warming. Or global thermal nuclear war. Or yeast infections.

If transfers without penalty were a reality, the system would adjust. Coaches and programs would manage.

Not that I care much, but I don't believe transfer rules are uniform across states for high schools. Maybe they are, but I think they differ between jurisdictions. If a kid wants to transfer to a private school because they have a better program, let him. If a kid's family wants to uproot themselves and move to another town to allow him to participate in that public school's athletics, let them. I don't LIKE that practice, and I sneer at those who do that, solely for athletics (rather than some legitimate other issues at another school), and if I play against a team that "recruits" like that I'm going to want to destroy them, but I'm not going to stop them from doing that. As long as they're actually residing there (if it's a public school), no problem. If a coach has to adjust because his star point guard moved to a rival school, oh well. If a kid gets bumped from his starting position because some hot shot comes in for his senior year, oh well.

Again, I'm all about making collegiate sports amateur again. My other suggestions would negate most of the nonsense that goes on in college sports, at this point. So, allowing kids to transfer without having to lose a year of precious eligibility would actually be contributing to that, instead of promoting this massive machine we've created, that steamrolls young adults into making "lasting" decisions about their future at ages 15, 16 and 17, with some silly penalty of a lose of a year of eligibility. Wah, it'll be too chaotic. Chaotic for whom? The folks paid millions upon millions upon millions to coach a game. They can suck it up, buttercups. I would MUCH rather "inconvenience" athletic directors and college coaches, who spend their time trying to sell children on the prospect of letting them coach the kids (i.e. win ball games and retain their jobs), than I would rather make a kid pay with a lost year of eligibility (or, in the alternative, stick it out where he's not happy), because, as it turns out, that 35-60 year old man whose job it is to sell me on his university/program, maybe didn't paint an accurate picture

They don’t lose a year of eligibility....they just have to sit out a year.

 

[bdgan]

Why some posters seems to think these kids are living in squalor is beyond me. They get a ton of sh!t whereas regular students get nothing.

Most high school athletes would love to play big time college football for free.

What next? Salary caps for colleges? Paying kids to play in high school?

 

[Evan Ceg]

This thread convinces me that we should not invest half a billion or three-quarters of a billion dollars in renovating Beaver Stadium. I'm not at all confident that Penn State (and other football schools) will be fielding an on-campus team in 20 years.

Soon college football and basketball will have about as much relevance to the mission of a university as would building a university-branded casino on the edge of campus.