http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball...-many-dont

Quote:Since 2012, the NCAA has allowed schools to provide multiyear scholarships. CBSSports.com made open-record requests with the 43 universities that finished 2013-14 as a top-25 football or men's basketball team. The multiyear scholarship numbers are for all athletes at each school. Note: Athletes who graduated or whose eligibility expired were not counted in the scholarship non-renewal numbers. Non-renewals can occur for many different reasons.

Quote:“Everybody keeps talking about USC doing four-year scholarships,” said Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher, whose school provided 49 athletes with multiyear scholarships last year. “I've been doing that for three years. I thought it was the right thing to do. Didn't know I had to (promote it).”

LSU coach Les Miles, whose school declined to provide its scholarship data, said it's a “show” when schools say they're offering four years.

“If you have a social problem that I have a question about, I non-renew you. If you're eligible, you get renewed,” Miles said. “My point to you is I like the function of communication. I like the function of the opportunity to say to a guy, ‘You need to do the right things.' A five year? It's exactly the same. A four year? It's exactly the same. Because it will all be reviewed based on academics and if there are off-the-field issues.”

Or as Alabama coach Nick Saban said of schools promoting multiyear scholarships: “That's bullsh*t. Everybody tries to say what they're doing is better than somebody else. We've been doing it for several years because it's what we think is best for the players, and that's why we do it.”

Some interesting tidbits about how the rule got passed:

Quote:In 2012, the NCAA barely passed a rule giving schools the option to provide multiyear scholarships. The arrangement was nearly scrapped when 62.12 percent of the 330 schools voting opposed the legislation -- just shy of the 62.5 percent needed to overturn the new rule. Twenty-five schools abstained and 14 changed their votes for the rule to survive.

Within Power 5 conferences, which now have autonomy to create their own rules, 38 percent of those schools wanted to overturn the option for multiyear scholarships. Among the Power 5 conferences, only the Big 12 voted as a collective league against multiyear scholarships.

And here is a link to the scholarship documents from many of the top 25 programs:

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball...-i-schools

And here's a list of the schools that either declined to provide data, or charged a fee for a FOIA. http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball...rship-data

(09-16-2014 09:48 AM)CommuterBob Wrote:  http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball...-many-dont

Quote:Since 2012, the NCAA has allowed schools to provide multiyear scholarships. CBSSports.com made open-record requests with the 43 universities that finished 2013-14 as a top-25 football or men's basketball team. The multiyear scholarship numbers are for all athletes at each school. Note: Athletes who graduated or whose eligibility expired were not counted in the scholarship non-renewal numbers. Non-renewals can occur for many different reasons.

Quote:“Everybody keeps talking about USC doing four-year scholarships,” said Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher, whose school provided 49 athletes with multiyear scholarships last year. “I've been doing that for three years. I thought it was the right thing to do. Didn't know I had to (promote it).”

LSU coach Les Miles, whose school declined to provide its scholarship data, said it's a “show” when schools say they're offering four years.

“If you have a social problem that I have a question about, I non-renew you. If you're eligible, you get renewed,” Miles said. “My point to you is I like the function of communication. I like the function of the opportunity to say to a guy, ‘You need to do the right things.' A five year? It's exactly the same. A four year? It's exactly the same. Because it will all be reviewed based on academics and if there are off-the-field issues.”

Or as Alabama coach Nick Saban said of schools promoting multiyear scholarships: “That's bullsh*t. Everybody tries to say what they're doing is better than somebody else. We've been doing it for several years because it's what we think is best for the players, and that's why we do it.”

Alabama gives them 4 year scholarships. They just kick them off the team and make them say they are injured.

(09-16-2014 11:01 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(09-16-2014 09:48 AM)CommuterBob Wrote:  http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball...-many-dont

Quote:Since 2012, the NCAA has allowed schools to provide multiyear scholarships. CBSSports.com made open-record requests with the 43 universities that finished 2013-14 as a top-25 football or men's basketball team. The multiyear scholarship numbers are for all athletes at each school. Note: Athletes who graduated or whose eligibility expired were not counted in the scholarship non-renewal numbers. Non-renewals can occur for many different reasons.

Quote:“Everybody keeps talking about USC doing four-year scholarships,” said Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher, whose school provided 49 athletes with multiyear scholarships last year. “I've been doing that for three years. I thought it was the right thing to do. Didn't know I had to (promote it).”

LSU coach Les Miles, whose school declined to provide its scholarship data, said it's a “show” when schools say they're offering four years.

“If you have a social problem that I have a question about, I non-renew you. If you're eligible, you get renewed,” Miles said. “My point to you is I like the function of communication. I like the function of the opportunity to say to a guy, ‘You need to do the right things.' A five year? It's exactly the same. A four year? It's exactly the same. Because it will all be reviewed based on academics and if there are off-the-field issues.”

Or as Alabama coach Nick Saban said of schools promoting multiyear scholarships: “That's bullsh*t. Everybody tries to say what they're doing is better than somebody else. We've been doing it for several years because it's what we think is best for the players, and that's why we do it.”

Alabama gives them 4 year scholarships. They just kick them off the team and make them say they are injured.

It's really bizarre to me how in a time when everybody is talking the student athlete getting screwed over by big time athletics, not a single story about the practice of over signing and the fact that LSU and Alabama practical run there programs like with pros with cuts. I get the SEC makes way too money to be taken to task but the espn shield must be greater than I thought.

http://www.sbnation.com/college-football...-interview

And this.

Bowlsby and the Big 12 called out the SEC and the fact that the NCAA is neutered right now. Sucks to be USC. The last team to get "real" sanctions for NCAA for cheating. Now, it's happening all throughout the South.