Strike3Looking posted:Following up on this thread with a new twist. Assume the following:
* Non-Power 5 D1 school offers player a multi-year scholarship
* Freshman year offer is 50% baseball money, Sophomore year is 0%, Junior year is 25% and Senior year is 25%
If this arrangement is set forth in the financial agreement executed in conjunction with the NLI, is it enforceable because there is Freshman year money of at least 25%? Does the 0% in Sophomore year render the Junior and Senior year scholarships unenforceable, or is the only risk associated with a 0% scholarship year associated with Freshman year (which I understand equates to a walk-on status with no enforceability as to subsequent year scholarship promises).
Essentially, is there risk with respect to the enforceability of a non-Power 5 D1 multi-year scholarship having a year less than 25% if that year is NOT the Freshman year? Anyone ever see offers structured this way (ostensibly, to give the program more recruiting flexibility in future years)? Understand that coach can always "encourage" player to leave the program.
A Big Ten coach told us at a camp that they had a minimum of 25% scholarship for each player (this was across the Big Ten). That 25% could happen in any fashion and he had some players that were 25% each other and others that had other arrangements. One player had 100% senior year and nothing other years. Important to confirm but if Big Ten based on what we heard that appears to be something they would honor given minimum of 25% for each player. One caveat: we heard this about 18 months ago so again, important to confirm.