Pushing back against the NLI

twoinanddone
Tue, 17 Feb 2015 22:02:41 +0000

It was hard to decide THIS was the number for a scholarship and THIS was the school, but in a lot of ways I was relieved to be locked in. I said to my daughter (who is always changing her mind and could never decided if she wanted the checked skirt or the striped one, the red cup or the blue cup) that if she wasn’t sure, she should not sign, she should wait for spring, she should look at more schools. Nope, she was sure. And for the first time in her life, she was.

What I think is very unfair is that the NLI is for one year, but there are restrictions on the athlete moving on the next year but not the schools. The schools can dump the athlete, but the student has to get permission to even look at another school. That’s not fair. The student shouldn’t be tied if the school isn’t.