Pushing back against the NLI

Ohiodad51
Wed, 18 Feb 2015 04:29:31 +0000

At least for equivalency sports, a recruit actually signs two documents on signing day (or during the signing period). The scholarship papers bind the school for one academic year in most cases, although that is slowly changing. The NLI binds the recruit to the school for at least four years under most circumstances. You can technically sign the scholarship papers and not the letter of intent, which is what Smith says he is going to do when he picks his school. While I agree that few recruits will have the juice to get away with that at most schools, I do think that this is one more push towards schools going to four year scholarships to make things more even.