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[QUOTE="sufandu, post: 171135, member: 874"]
Really?  So scholarships didn't exist before signing day was covered like it was the superbowl?  Scholarships don't exist for non-revenue sports? 
 
Has college football and basketball become big business?  Absolutely!  That doesn't mean some kid has to make a decision to make you feel better.  He made his decision within the rules.  Those same rules allow coaches to pull a scholarship offer right up until a LOI is received, and even then they can cut the kid without having to give reason whenever they want to.  Remember when coach P back in the day would say the numbers would always work themselves out and then a kid would conveniently transfer?  How many of those kids do you think initiated those transfers?  Not many.  That happens everywhere.
 
You can't make a verbal commitment binding anymore than a car dealer can make you purchase a car because you told the him you would.  If you want to change the rule, allow the kids to sign a LOI at any point after December 31 of their Junior year.  If you do that however, the school would also be required to commit to the player for at least one season.  What you would then see is much more judiciousness taken in scholarship offers because teams wouldn't want a kid taking a slot that they had wanted for someone else.  Accountability would then exist for both school and athlete.
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