Where have you people been? These realities have been around for a while now. Have you ever spoken to a family member of a D1 scholarship athlete? I’d encourage you to. It’s not remotely what you think. Scholarships are semester to semester. And that includes the non-revenue sports. If a coach can upgrade a position or even their depth chart, they don’t think twice about pulling scholarships or reducing or even chasing a player out of town. Go ask a baseball parent that deal with 50+ players on a team and only 11 scholarships, transfer portal and the ncaa that is allowing kids to play as many as 8 years between covid, medical redshirts, transferring, coaching changes..you name it.
On the other side, players in basketball and football are getting most of the nil money and if they can make more or ensure a starting position, there is no loyalty. Skill positions lead the way. It’s rampant with qb’s. Nobody thinks about development. It’s play immediately or move on. It goes that way for coaches and players because there’s always someone better than you and kids also have zero patience.
It’s literally the wild west.
