Perhaps he's being cryptic about his return because there's not a scholarship to give him unless someone else transfers out.
If not mistaken he's working on 2nd Masters degree. Does he need an athletic scholarship when an academic would pay the way?
I am not an expert on such rules but I do not believe this is allowed. If it were Alabama would suddenly have 50 football players on "academic" scholarship. I don't know if there is any way that he could apply for a well established academic scholarship that came from a place totally outside the University. I suspect not. It used to be the case that if you played a non-revenue sport and a revenue sport that your scholarship had to count against the revenue sport. I assume that is still the case but I do not know. It was supposed to keep, say, a faux track team full of sprinters that are really receivers and cornerbacks from existing to funnel extra scholarship players to a football team.
I have wondered about this before in the case of a PhD student as you would need money to fund research outside of a standard scholarship. Most people would be out of eligibility before it gets to that point and you couldn't make much progress toward most possible PhDs while committing so much time to sports so I have never heard of a player going for one
Last Edited: 2/25/2022 10:23:09 AM by Victory