1. Among his duties, McWhorter tracked the academic progress of UGA student-athletes in the wake of a lawsuit which revealed preferential treatment for numerous scholarship football players. 2. Although the NCAA prohibits scholarship players from working during the school year, several players, including Shirley, got cash jobs as bouncers at local bars. 3. ASU has only nine healthy scholarship players. 4. At the very least, a college scholarship player, as long as the chain of progression was not broken. 5. Barone had to cut two of his four oral commitments and played with seven scholarship players the next two seasons. 6. Beck said that two other scholarship players, who had originally joined the team with walk-on status, would not receive athletic aid next season. 7. Because of injuries and transfers and personal decisions, Arizona, which opens tournament play Thursday against Jackson State, went most of the season with seven scholarship players. 8. A series of transfers has left Arizona with eight scholarship players and no backup point guard. 9. A walk-on soccer player from Athens Academy, Bennett beat out scholarship player Brett Kirouac for the kicking duties after the first two games. 10. By running off four returning scholarship players and bringing in eight new players, Knight let it be known from the start that a new day had dawned. |
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