If in fact college is to prepare our sons for the "real" (business) world, then year to year baseball scholarships make sense. We all know in the business world, our performance is evaluated yearly. Just an early dose of the "what have you done for me lately" mantra.
Hmm. Sounds like employment.
Not really. As an employee I have certain "protections." Things like wage/hour and discrimination laws. Many times companies provide severance pay, or at least unemployment insurance, if I am laid off. When I am let go, I can generally go to any employer I want, even competitors, and I don't have to sit out a year.
That was sort of my point. If you want to treat College athletes like employees, then they need the same protections. If I'm being convinced to move across country to take a job, I don't want to lose it based simply on the fact that my boss may have found someone he thinks could possibly do a better job than me.