Duke is down to eight
scholarship players after kicking Rasheed Sulaimon off the team at the end of January.
Not exact matches
And the
players can be cut
after a year and lose their
scholarship for basicly any reason.
Unlike
players who sign a normal
scholarship tender, athletes at the service academies sign on to serve in active military duty
after college.
It's not unheard of for
players to commit
after and sign an equally binding (for the school)
scholarship agreement (Michael Porter, Blake Harris, and Jeremiah Tilmon all signed one last year, as you can't sign a second NLI even if released from the first one).
It wouldn't surprise me if Campbell, who was suspended in November for throwing a punch at an opposing
player, had his
scholarship offer from Michigan State pulled
after this latest event.
Baseball freaks know his story well by now: He was state
player of the year for Federal Way High School in 2002 and earned a
scholarship to Oregon State, but signed with the San Francisco Giants
after they selected him in the 21st round of the 2002 MLB draft.