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Wawwy Bwown cuts student atheletes

Discussion in 'NBA Draft' started by Carl Herrera, Apr 28, 2012.

  1. Carl Herrera

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    Brown cut their scholarship. It was only after bad publicity, the AD reinstated the scholarships. No where does it say back on the team.

    Here is the decision - do you stay at SMU on scholarship as a regular student or do you find a scholarship to play basketball elsewhere? Not much of a choice. Makes it look like the student is not being forced to leave.

    Length of scholarships is complicated. It was one year at a time. Rules now allow multiyear awards.
     
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    Thanks for the explanation. I remember reading stories about situations where a player gets cut from their college teams in order to make room for more promising recruits and lost their scholarship. I guess SMU decided to award separate scholarships for these players for PR reasons. Do these scholarships count against the scholarship cap? I am thinking that they probably do (or else teams can just keep an unlimited # of guys on scholarship and have the best on the roster?), so SMU is hoping to "outplace" these guys in order to free up sthe slots.
     
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    My first thought is the scholarships would count as I doubt the guys cut are smart enough to earn academic or non athletic scholarships.

    The plan will backfire if the guys stay but without a spot on the team I'm thinking the guys will opt to play elsewhere.
     

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