Multiyear Scholarships: Bad for Virginia Tech

Back in the fall, the NCAA passed a new rule that gave schools the option to offer multiyear scholarships and $2,000 stipends to recruits.  They basically shoved it down the collective throats of the college football world and quickly heard protests from many schools.

In case you aren’t familiar with the issue, athletic scholarships as we know them are basically one-year contract agreements.  At the end of the year, the scholarship is either renewed by the school, or not renewed.  The rule passed last fall gave schools the chance to offer recruits a four or five year guaranteed scholarship, along with that $2,000 stipend.

Some schools are in favor of the multiyear scholarship, and others are not.  Virginia Tech is not in favor of it.  Neither am I, in case you are curious.  On paper, I know it seems like a meat market.  A defensive lineman can’t crack the two-deep in his first two years because he’s just not good enough?  Boom, no more scholarship.  That’s how it works at some programs.  Indeed, that does stink for that player.

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