[Husker] Pelini Pre-season Press Conference

[Mark Landin]

On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 7:33 AM, j j <jjj112665 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I dont think you should punish the team, they are only trying to get the best player available to them. Punish the player by making him pay back the University for his scholarship. Do that in every sport. Might make some think twice about leaving if they had to refund the amount of their scholarship.

Again, what financial harm has the University suffered that would
justify a financial penalty levied on the player? In what way has a
player leaving early defrauded the institution? Obviously the
scholarship represents monetary value, but the player only enjoys the
scholarship will he's actually enrolled. Once the player leaves
school, his service to the University stops, but then so does the
University's obligation to maintain the scholarship. (In fact, the
University has the option to cancel a player's scholarship at any
time, equivalent to the player's ability to stop playing for the
University at any time).

Honestly, the ones feeling the pain in this situation are a) the
coaches who are losing their best players early (but then so is their
competition), and b) the fans, who hate to see good players go before
they have to. The schools aren't out anything. The players aren't out
anything. The NFL isn't out anything. We as fans and coaches have no
"standing" in this situation as we are not suffering demonstrable
harm.

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