Midwest Mom posted:tao posted:OK, son called the coach and this is how it works. For example:
1st year: 50%
2nd year: 25%
3rd year: 25%
4th year: 25%
The 1st year son will get the full 50% as originally committed. The 2nd year, say if the coach runs out of money and wants to offer some new recruit, coach might take 10% scholarship from my son and other players to make room for the new recruit. So the 2nd year, son will get 50-10=40%. The 3rd year, coach will return previous year 10% PLUS 5%(like interest?) back to son, so the 3rd year he will get 50+15=65%.
So overall, it's still 50%. So we are good, and smart move for the coaches to have flexibility for recruiting. I know it's all based on the words, but we got to trust the coaches!
Thanks all for the good comments and PM, the explanation sounds reasonable to me. Hopefully the HC can still keep the job until son graduates
HC got 10-year contract, he is now in his 3rd year.
We heard about this from a Big 10 coach as well - that they have flexibility in how they apply the scholarship. For example, he said with one recruit the recruit/family paid for three years themselves and the 25% scholarship was paid as a full year the recruit's junior year. In other cases it was the same amount each year. He said they worked with each family to figure out the best situation.
Am I missing something?
If the above is true, that player was a walk on, who could have been released at anytime, and then unable to transfer to another D1.
They worked with each family for what is best for them (coaches). The guys who they expected to make a difference, got the better offers.
