So coaches can leave at their leisure but players can't. No wonder the folks at NW want to unionize. Kind of reminds you of colonial times and indentured servitude. I guess we can hold him to his letter of intent and continue the charade that kids sign with a school as opposed to a coach.
Actually, Alan, it's the reverse. In the end the kid will get out of his "binding" letter of intent, if he wants out, yet the "binding" letter is binding on the school. They can't say "oh, nvm, we decided not to give you a scholarship after all, but to give it to someone else instead". Thus the school is bound, but in practicality, the kid is not.