For some reason, many high school and college athletes think they are free to transfer to another school without penalty if the head coach who recruited them leaves the university for any reason.
Who’s Got Text?
The NCAA’s experiment with text messaging and college basketball recruiting is bound to fail miserably, but in the meantime, high school players need to aggressively get their digits into coach’s cell phones.
Verbal Abuse
Your word may be important to you, and your family, and your teammates, but not to the NCAA. A student-athlete’s verbal pledge to a college coach prior to the signing period carries no weight with the NCAA.
Affordable Ivy League
The Ivy League has never awarded athletic scholarships and isn’t about to start now. However, the conference is suddenly spending hundreds of millions of dollars in need-based aid that has nearly eliminated student loans for middle-income families.
