re: Tide Hoops | 25-12 (13-5)

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The NCAA requiring all scholarships to be 3 year contracts would in no way violate a player's right to earn NIL.

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Requiring that would get the courts involved, again, and the NCAA would lose, again. For the same reasons the courts killed the sit out requirement even for second time transfers. They aren't going to let the NCAA do anything that potentially forces an athlete to remain at a school he or she no longer wants to be at.

The best they can do is create some kind of two tiered scholarship structure where what you are proposing here (mutually enforcable, multi-year contracts) is one option and the other is a scholarship that operates year to year with the option, but no obligation, to renew on the part of the school. So that way no one is being forced to do anything and they can opt into this annual free agency system if they want to, but there's a downside to it.