This will help the Big 10 and hurt the SEC

"given the newly passed Student Athlete Bill of Rights - all scholarships are also now granted for four years and cannot be taken away which deviates from most NCAA schools which only give out one year scholarships."

The SEC kills the Big 10 in football, and some of it is due to differences in conference recruiting policy. The Big 10 gives 4 year scholarships, while the SEC allows teams to dump their poor players and replace them with Freshman recruits. The SEC will still likely beat us most of the time, but it'll close the gap.

4 year scholarships is how it should be. It's a rough disruption for a student to have lose their scholarship through no fault of their own. Lots of students choose their school by who is giving them the most money. Imagine passing on your first, second, or third choice schools because another school grants you a free ride for the first year and then a new freshmen class comes in and they decided you're expendable. Now, you have to change schools to see if someone else will give you scholarship. The schools should not be run like businesses and should make a 4 year commitment to the students.

The only way any school should be able to "take back" athletic scholarships is if the player leaves school voluntarily. The practice followed by the SEC (and probably other conferences as well) sucks eggs.

Part of the problem is that in the SEC, athletic prowess will always triumph over the side of academics.