If you've received an athletic scholarship and half way through your freshman fall semester you decide to quit the team, how does that work with your tuition for that current fall semester? Can the school come after you and say "You now owe us that athletic scholarship money back that offset your cost for the fall because you're no longer an athlete at our school?"
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I can't say for certain as it probably depends on every school, but I believe once the add/drop date has passed and tuition has been accounted for then I think it's a done deal for that semester.
@Francis7 posted:If you've received an athletic scholarship and half way through your freshman fall semester you decide to quit the team, how does that work with your tuition for that current fall semester? Can the school come after you and say "You now owe us that athletic scholarship money back that offset your cost for the fall because you're no longer an athlete at our school?"
Are you talking about not finishing the semester?
How would that look to potential transfer rules?
@TerribleBPthrower posted:How would that look to potential transfer rules?
Rules or suitors?
Suitors. No idea how or why I typed rules.
@TerribleBPthrower posted:Suitors. No idea how or why I typed rules.
Not really worried about it because academics are more important.
If your son is injured, why quit? It’s approaching mid term already. If baseball + classes are difficult now, should try and deal with it for the future right?
I'm going to say if a player quits mid-fall, he better be quitting for good. I cannot imagine any team wanting him if he quits mid-fall. If he is hurt, then finish out semester because he should not be practicing anyway. Just my 2 cents.
This is all assuming that the student has not fully explored all options to remain with the team and get a handle on the academics with support from the team. Nor does it assume that the student/athlete is just done with baseball and wants to be a non-athlete/student.
Would a better solution for the student/athlete be to talk with the coach and let him know they are potentially struggling with classes and ask what can be done? Vs. just quitting? I'm sure there have been other athletes who needed to focus on their academics first, so if the team understands this, and/or maybe the team let's him go, would that not show better for later if the student gets the academic side under control, learns how to deal better, and wants to return to being a student athlete - there or somewhere else. I certainly wouldn't phrase it to the coach as simply quitting, I'd ask what help could be provided and consider options (or at least appear to) before saying they can't handle both currently.
Quitting is never a good look, always want to show effort to make it work, unless that student never wants to play collegiality again and has made up their mind. Even so the school made a financial commitment so at least appear to try and make it work, ie play the game.
So, the answer is that the athletic department owns the scholarship and they can always cancel it if the player quits the team and the tuition bill can be reopened and adjusted at any time and the student can be billed if the scholarship was taken away by the athletic department.
As it should be. If you got a scholarship to play ball and quit, you should lose the scholarship because you did not uphold your end of the deal. It is no different than if they cut you, you can stay and they have to honor the scholarship even if they won't let you play.
My suggestion was and still is, do not quit anything. If the player is hurt get fixed, do rehab go to classes spend time working out with the team as you get better and make it a redshirt year, and then transfer out.
I absolutely agree that quitting is not going to help.
