TPM posted:Journey On posted:Here is a refreshing angle. Son was offered and given 40% Freshman year, and told, it would be 40% each of the four years. Three days before classes begin in Aug. of Soph. year Coach asks son to help the team out. He offers son an additional 40% plus another 5% (85%) if he would take the 85% Soph year, back to 40% Jr. year and 0% Senior year. Coach was looking to free up Scholarship dollars for a 2018 and wanted to let that soph in HS know he would get the 40% future ride.
We said:, " Oh, yeah, we will take that money up front all day long!"
Do not waste time & energy trying to figure out where a team is allocating the $$ to and @ what %. There are far to many variables involved. And it is an unwritten rule among teammates not to discuss their financial situations.
Listen to the Wise & Sage Elder Posters on this site ~ "Enjoy the Moment, Enjoy the Ride, Control What You Can and never try to guess what the Coach is thinking"
The stories my son has shared in his past 2 seasons regarding a situation like Proud Parent above is that: "What a coach tells a player in an exit interview from either Fall Ball or Season End, and what that player relays to his parents , and what he tells his teammates are not always the same story. "
Journey On,
Help me out here. Your sons scholarship agreement was changed before he began his sophmore year after promising him 40% for 4 years to free up money for a 2018, giving your son no athletic money his senior year?
You do realize that this puts your son into a walk on situation who could possibly lose his player status senior year to that player? Did you all discuss that possibility with the coach?
Folks, never think you are given a fair deal anytime the original agreement is changed. The coaches are much better at this than we will ever benand thinking way far ahead more than you ever will be.
JMO
Have seen it happen more than once where seniors who originally had a four year scholarship deal (i.e., guaranteed NCAA roster counter) give up this leverage by agreeing to take their scholarship money up front. This strategy could work great for those that leave school early to go into the draft. But on the flip side they can unexpectedly find themselves without scholarship dollars in their senior year, get cut from the team in favor of incoming guys, and end up devastated. As TPM points out, it is a real risk.