@anotherparent posted:I know that that is how it works, because I've read it here. Obviously a player couldn't continue under those circumstances. But, that newspaper article implied that the players were told "their scholarship money had to be used for returning students." That simply was not true. If newspaper articles like this were more honest about what really goes on, said "the university was required to honor the NLI scholarship, so they encouraged the player to voluntarily withdraw," perhaps it wouldn't happen so much.
The author of that article, Greg Riddle, is not one of the better sports writers in DFW. So not surprising that he may have taken what was said to him at face value. It also wouldn’t surprise me one bit if either of the schools told those kids exactly what was written.