NLI Questions

BJM2014 Grad,

To my knowledge, the NAIA has no letter of intent program.  In fact the rules for recruiting are primarily aimed at 2 or 4 year college athletes playing for other schools.  The NAIA requires permission to contact from the player's current school.

The National Letter of Intent program is only available to NCAA D1 or D2 recruits.A player may sign an NLI and later decide to go pro or enroll at a D3, NAIA, or JC without penalty unless the player subsequently decides to transfer to a D1 or D2.

The NJCAA has a Letter of Intent program.  Again, it is only enforceable if a player signs it and then decide to enroll at a different NJCAA school.

Thanks 3FingeredGlove. Yes I read that there is no NLI with NAIA schools, but my question reallly is if they offered you a scholaraship at the NAIA school, and you sign their equivilant letter to the NLI (which I am told they use but called something different) and say go sign with a Juco instead, can you get suspended later if say after 2yrs with a Juco you go to another NAIA school?

Again, the NAIA has no letter of intent program. From a NAIA webpage:

Letters of intent in the NAIA are agreements between a prospective student and the school. NAIA rules do not impose any penalties or suspension on a prospective student that breaks an agreement with a school to attend a different institution. Therefore, if a prospective student signed with one institution but did not compete, the student may participate immediately should the student choose to attend a different institution.