Scholarship players can be cut the fall of their freshman year, but they still count against the scholarship limit and their scholly is good for the entire school year (even at non-Power 5) so cutting a scholly freshman doesn't happen often. From what I've seen, most times the scholly players aren't "cut" but at the year end meeting following the spring season, they are basically "informed" that they won't be seeing the field the following season....basically encouragiing them to walk away without actually saying it. It's happened to a couple kids at my son's school. In his time there, any scholly players that were actually "cut" were due to discipline or academic issues.