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[QUOTE="Full_Rebar, post: 1099243, member: 3530"]
How many academic scholarship students miss 10-20 class days due to travel required by their scholarship? Or have to choose classes/major based around a schedule required by their scholarship award? Or can have that scholarship removed, or reduced, without specific quantifiable criteria (GPA, academic standing, etc) by the person in control of their award? Do you know of scholarship recipients who cannot freely transfer to another institution unless they are approved by the person awarding the scholarship?

Better yet, is there anyone else on this board who has had a student come into their office in Feb. of the student's 1st year to say that they need to transfer because the head coach of their sport is taking away their full scholarship- after said student tore an ACL in the 1st game of the season. Have you had students tell you that coaches told them to choose between Major X and their sport because required classes cut into too much practice time?

Yes athletes get some perks, but not every scholarship athlete is a fb/hoops player with pro aspirations, and there are some challenges that these students face that others don't, and the current system does not protect them.
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