<p>Yes SS, after posting I realized I should have said "verbal offers" may not stand. NLI contracts would likely stand.</p>
<p>(BTW, ND's football roster has 17 graduated seniors :) )</p>
<p>"and let say you are "recruited" as a junior for a sport, and semi commit in your head that you will go to that school, and then say you get injured, and can't play for awhile or get injured in SR year</p>
<p>and lets say you applied to just a few schools with the total expectation of going to that one school, is the school still obligated to follow through on their promise</p>
<p>there is the boy at my friend's school, who has pretty much been told he can go to this school, but really hurt himslef and probably can't play again in that sport, and now, he is scrambling....</p>
<p>why do colleges take that risk to promise something to someone who can indeed get hurt like that"</p>
<p>You've pretty much hit the nail on the head about RISK and the recruited athelete. Atheletic scholarships are a year to year deal. An athelete is at risk of losing their scholarship after one, two, or three years. A sports scholarship is actually bittersweet in many cases if you understand what happens to the athelete. </p>
<p>While the school provides you with an education, you aren't allowed to work, receive any compensation for jersey sales or the use of your likeness for marketing purposes and in some cases study the major or take the class load you want. Injury is always out there and in some places, an injury makes you a non person, or worse they pressure you to give up your scholarship to use with somebody else.</p>
<p>A sports scholarship is a great opportunity for a lot of kids, but it's an iceberg. You only are shown a little bit. </p>
<p>As SS pointed out some schools (not all) honor their commitments to students injured during their years on campus. But just as many don't. All you need is a coach who wants to move on or needs to win to keep their job and your scholarship while on injury is something they could use elsewhere.</p>