(05-07-2017 09:34 PM)utahowl Wrote:  I believe in reality all athletic scholarships are year to year. But it is considered very poor form to cut a kid because they aren't going to be a star or starter. I got to Utah during the Rick Majerus days. A great coach but he would run kids off if they didn't cut it. Telling them I'll work your butt off in practice but you will never see the court.
Can't remember his name but I'm pretty sure Bailiff offered a scholarship to a football lineman who then had a heart condition and could never play. Bailiff honored the scholarship until the kid could become a student assistant or something like that. Certainly in basketball you will know early on if you will play or warm the pine but the number of transfers is out of control especially using a mid-major or lower tier school to audition for the big boys. Verbal commits is the best source of up to date transfers and some of these players have been to 3 even 4 schools. Are they students? Maybe the system is just a farce.

Just look at Kentucky who has an entirely new team every season. I'm sure those "students" don't even see he inside of a classroom during their time on campus just like Ben Simmons at LSU. Calling those kids scholar athletes is a joke.