Kids are told they are guaranteed one year, with the option to renew. It is VERY rare, even in the cicumstances were are talking about here, for a kid to get a scholarship cut unless they screw up. By NCAA rules they cannot be cut because of athletic performance, look it up. Football gets 85 scholarships per year, if you figure 14 medicals over 4 years that equates to roughly 4% of those athletes being put on a medical. That is higher than other D1 schools, true, but not really that great a number in the overall scheme of things. And, like someone else pointed out, they still get their education paid for.

IF we were talking about cutting the scholarship altogether so they couldn't attend school, that would be a different story, but that rarely happens, and when it does it is almost always deserved. Most scholarships that are changed over 4 years are INCREASED, not decreased. Go look at the NCAA's webpage, they keep stats on all this stuff.

Personally, I would see nothing wrong with having some type of performance clause in the scholarship contract, especially for the junior and senior season at D1 schools. And I would also see nothing wrong with the school requiring players who leave early to go to the pros being required to repay their scholarships. Take it out of their signing bonuses.