From: SCHMIDT@LSTC2VM.stortek.com (Jon Schmidt)
Subject: Re: FSU and ND next year...
Organization: StorageTek SW Engineering
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 23:33:08 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.133708.23420@wl.com>
wyborsr@wl.com (Russ Wyborski) writes:
>
>        As an aside, does it bother anyone else that the college players leave
>early. I realize that they have $$$ staring them in the face but it seems to me
>like they are breaking a committment. The schools offer them a scholarship at the beginning that covers the whole time that they will be in school.
>They don't,
>and actually can't, reevaluate that committment every year. We could have long
>discussions on who is getting more out of this arrangement, the players or the
>schools, but it does seem that in these cases the players are not honoring the
>committments that they made when they signed the letters-of-intent.
 
Hold on here!  By NCAA rule, a college can promise no more than ONE YEAR
of financial aid to a student-athlete.  Each year, by July 1,  the
athletic department decides, for each scholarship athlete, whether or
not it will renew its financial aid committment for another year.  It
seems to me that the institution has the upper hand in this.  Judge for
yourself.
 
15.3.3  Period of Institutional Financial Aid Award
 
  15.3.3.1  One-Year Limit.   Where a student's athletics ability is
  taken into consideration in any degree in awarding financial aid, such
  aid shall not be awarded in excess of one academic year.
 
    15.3.3.1.1  Financial Aid Authority Precedent.   A staff member may
    inform a prospect that the athletics department will recommend to
    the financial aid authority that the prospect's financial aid be
    renewed each year for a period of four years and may indicate that
    the authority always has followed the athletics department's
    recommendations in the past.  However, the prospect must be informed
    that the renewal will not be automatic.
 
    15.3.3.1.2  Injury or Illness Policy.   It is not permissible for an
    institution to assure the prospect that it automatically will
    continue a grant-in-aid past the one-year period if the recipient
    sustains an injury that prevents him or her from competing in
    intercollegiate athletics, but an institutional representative may
    inform the prospect of the regular institutional policy related to
    renewal or continuation of aid past the one-year period for
    recipients who become ill or injured during their participation.
 
15.3.4  Gradation and Cancellation During Period of Award
 
  15.3.4.1  Gradation or Cancellation Permitted.   Institutional
  financial aid may be gradated or canceled during the period of the
  award if the recipient:
  (a) Renders himself or herself ineligible for intercollegiate
      competition; or
  (b) Fraudulently misrepresents any information on an application,
      letter of intent or financial aid agreement (see 15.3.4.1.1); or
  (c) Engages in serious misconduct warranting substantial disciplinary
      penalty (see 15.3.4.1.2), or
  (d) Voluntarily withdraws from a sport for personal reasons.  If the
      recipient withdraws from a sport for personal reasons prior to the
      institution's first competition in that sport, gradation or
      cancellation may occur immediately;  however, the recipient's
      financial aid may not be awarded to another student-athlete in the
      term in which the aid was gradated or cancelled.  If the recipient
      withdraws subsequent to the institution's first competition in
      that sport, the gradation or cancellation shall not occur prior to
      the conclusion of that semester or quarter.
 
      15.3.4.1.1  Fraudulent Misrepresentation.   If a student-athlete
      is awarded institutional financial aid on the basis of declaring
      intention to participate in a particular sport by signing a letter
      of intent, application or tender, action on the part of the
      grantee not to participate (either by not reporting for practice
      or making only token appearances as determined by the institution)
      would constitute fraudulent misrepresentation of information on
      the grantee's application, letter of intent or financial aid
      agreement and would permit the institution to cancel or gradate
      the financial aid.
 
      15.3.4.1.2  Misconduct.   An institution may cancel or gradate the
      financial aid of a student-athlete who is found to have engaged in
      misconduct by the university's regular student disciplinary
      authority, even if the loss-of-aid requirement does not apply to
      the student body in general.
 
      15.3.4.1.3  Hearing Opportunity Required ...........
 
15.3.5  Renewals and Nonrenewals
 
  15.3.5.1  Institutional Obligation.   The renewal of institutional
  financial aid shall be made on or before July 1 prior to the academic
  year in which it is to be effective.  The institution shall promptly
  notify in writing each student-athlete who received an award the
  previous academic year and who has eligibility remaining (under 14.2
  or 14.1.8.2) for the ensuing academic year whether the grant has been
  renewed or not renewed.  Notification of financial aid renewals and
  nonrenewals must come from the institution's regular financial aid
  authority and not from the institution's athletics department.
 
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