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[QUOTE="Cusefan95, post: 1009950, member: 173"]
The fact that scholarships are renewed annually is one of the biggest arguments for paying college athletes.  I'm not sure how anyone can justify that the athlete can't leave without penalty, but the college can cut his scholarship at any time.  plus if he's getting paid with a "free education", the value is in the degree, not in having two years of college under your belt.  So the guys that get cut essentially got no compensation for playing.

You have to be either completely immoral or a total idiot to think the current system is even remotely justifiable.  I know it will have massive impacts on college athletics if the ruling stands, many of which will negatively impact Syracuse - but the Northwestern decision is absolutely, 110% the right one.

If colleges could have done the ethical thing and accepted that they were on the hook for four years when they offered the scholie, they wouldn't have put themselves in this position.  But by creating what is effectively a non-negotiable 'contract' with such disgustingly biased terms, they've put themselves in this position of trying defend an indefensible position.
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