The Stakes getting higher for recruits and grades

.... and more importantly on schools. NCAA prez Myles Brand is laying out his vision, which means if a player leaves early due to academic problems, a coach cannot replace that scholarship. No doubt that will have an impact on recruiting and which players get signed. Not only that, it is not clear how players leaving early for the NBA would be handled. Let it be said right here - they will make an exemption for that - no doubt. If a coach could not replace a scholarship when a player heads to the NBA, that puts the most talented recruits in a tough spot. Will they be recruited by the top schools, if the Coach K's and Hewitt's of the world know they will only last a year? Of course in the end it would penalize the school and the athletics programs.