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If you have grown as tired as I have with the revolving door of college athletics caused by the creation of the transfer portal, I may have a solution.
Currently, scholarship athletes, whose tuition, room and board and miscellaneous living expenses are paid for by universities across the country, can simply enter the portal with little consequence. Fans, like me, are then left high and dry wondering why we should bother supporting those players who benefit from the platform that university sports programs are providing.
One possible solution: Require all scholarship recipients to sign simple contracts that, if they leave to play for another team, would require them to reimburse the university for all expenses covered by their scholarship. This would not apply to scholarship athletes who are cut from the team, injured and not able to play. Nor would it apply to those who play less than the average of all starters. That last proviso will encourage coaches to use every player, and not just the top four or five.
Michael Herring, Madison
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