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Indiana State coach Kevin McKenna boots former starter
It happens all the time in college football.
Nick Saban gets blasted for this stuff year after year...A lot of big time college football programs oversign kids each year...You are limited to offering 25 scholarships for football in each class, but schools like Alabama, Miami, Florida State consistently accept LOIs on 30+ scholarships offered to kids in a given year...and by the time the season rolls around, this number of scholarships "magically" has to be reduced back to 25...so scholarships get pulled, pure and simple...Of course, it gets spun in the media a dozen different ways..."players A and B left the program for unspecified reasons"..."players E, F, and G were offered academic scholarships because of unspecified medical conditions that won't allow them to be an active member of the football team"..."player H will be placed in a prep school because of academic issues"..."players L and M will remain with the team, but will have walk-on status (i.e., they have 'agreed' to pay their own way after their schollie was pulled)...etc."
According to Rivals.com, eight teams signed 30 or more players this year -- Alabama (32), Miami (33), Florida State (30), Minnesota (30), Virginia Tech (31), Mississippi (32), Kansas State (33) and Army (34).
Just do a google search on "college football oversigning", and you'll find tons of stories about kids getting their schollies pulled...if you are curious...
OK, I guess one does not hear about it much because except for the starters in the skill positions, we do not hear about it.
But ER, is that the same thing?....
are you talking about offering a kid a scholarship then pulling it back BEFORE he gets there?....that's what you call "oversigning"?
I am talking about booting a kid who has already been at your school, on your team, and using his scholarship for a couple years already, just because you want to use the scholarship for someone else.
I really could not find any examples outside of basketball. I am not saying it never happens in football, but if it does, it certainly isn't too prevalent, as I could find numerous examples in basketball (like the kids just booted by Rick Majerus, and Porter Moser did it with Sams, Vianney, and now McKenna doing it with Holmstrom, etc.
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