The following article was written by Benjamin Haynes, Esq. Recently, the NCAA changed their rule with regards to allowing a University to only offer a one-year grant in aid to a student-athlete. The rule now permits schools to offer multi-year scholarships to athletes. However, it is not mandatory for schools to do so. Therefore, the rule […]
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Last Monday, Joseph Agnew, a former Rice University football player, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco based on the NCAA’s one-year scholarship rule. The rule restricts a school from giving an athletic scholarship to a student-athlete for more than one-year at a time. Agnew was affected by […]