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justbaseball10,000+ posts

Well I certainly couldn't argue with his advice...he's in the middle of it. And he really does have some very good points about academic/athletic mixing.

Obviously all I can go by is our experience and that of some friends of ours. Everything was done verbally and it all rang true in the end when the NLI arrived.

It seems to me that a coach who plays too many games with scholarship amounts will pay a price down the road. First of all, rumors of those situations spread quickly...there's one on the Left Coast that most/many? good players know about. Second, if that practice were exercised more than once I believe it would find its way to this board among other places. I just still believe that their word will be honored 99/100 times. But maybe I'm naive.

8/2/0611:28 AM

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