ND promises its players a degree and an opportunity to play.

For these guys, ND has fulfilled its promise.

If those players want to get more PT and go somewhere else for one or two semesters with ND degree in hand, I have a hard time faulting anyone involved.

Agreement.

After his junior year.

While you are playing the sport

Scholarships are one-year renewable contracts. I think that's a terrible and exploitative system, but that's what the agreement is.

To the normative or moral question of honoring a fair agreement, I don't think that agreement should be measured by the entirely arbitrary timeframe of a period of years, but instead based on the purpose of attending the University. The purpose of attending ND is to obtain a degree, not to attend classes for four years. ND does better by a student who graduates in three or three and a half years than it does by a student who takes classes for four, but does not graduate.

Reward a student’s industry by a foot in the pants.

of our coach and AD, but it's also plausible that they've just gotten smarter about roster management. They may well have had some of these conversations weeks ago, and recruited with knowledge of who was staying and who was planning on leaving, rather than who they were planning to push out.

And my concerns of abuse are much lower when the kid has graduated. I don't think there's an entitlement to a 4th year of fucking around.