Sign a NLOI or a scholarship agreement?

Prepsters and junior college transfers -- if talented enough, meaning they have multiple excellent options -- just might want to consider NOT signing a national letter of intent. Or at least insert a statement into it along the lines that "this document is null and void if such-and-such takes place..." -- if that doesn't completely invalidate the document by doing so. Kids sign because of coaches and coaching staffs and the freedom to transfer should be an automatic one if a coach moves on for whatever reason(s).

National letter of intent not always a two-way agreement
Ramona Shelburne
Los Angeles Daily News
2/02/2009

What's in a name?

In the case of national signing day, everything.

In recent years, the first Wednesday in February has become something of a national holiday, with football recruits across the country finally announcing where they will play in college and making those commitments official by signing a national letter of intent.

But did you know that actually signing a letter of intent is completely voluntary?

In other words, the actual signing going on during signing day isn't required.

Kind of ruins the name, doesn't it?

A growing chorus of athletes' advocates and lawyers believe something else is going on...

Go here for the remainder.

Just found a couple of interesting links.

The first one is an article in which an NCAA offical is quoted as saying a NLOI cannot be modified in any manner.

The second is a Seth Davis article on letters of intent.