[jacketree]

I will pose this question again, if anyone knows, and this is just fro a fiduciary perspective: Does CM have any fiduciary responsibility to play given he is on scholarship? Are scholarship players allowed to take themselves out of games? And, if he does have that sort of fiduciary responsibility, did he have to remove himself from scholarship? Or perhaps this is an exceptional case where he asked permission from his coach and it was (obviously) given? Just curious...
-m.

Nobody needs to ask permission to quit. There would normally be repercussions but since the quarter is over, CM has left school and CM is no longer on scholarship, Stanford's leverage over him and his fiduciary responsibility are both zero. I am not aware of anything that would allow Stanford to go after scholarship reimbursement. Not that they would even consider it.

I'm sure CM and his family weighed "bad feelings" into the decision they made.

[jacketree]

I will pose this question again, if anyone knows, and this is just fro a fiduciary perspective: Does CM have any fiduciary responsibility to play given he is on scholarship? Are scholarship players allowed to take themselves out of games? And, if he does have that sort of fiduciary responsibility, did he have to remove himself from scholarship? Or perhaps this is an exceptional case where he asked permission from his coach and it was (obviously) given? Just curious...
-m.

Nobody needs to ask permission to quit. There would normally be repercussions but since the quarter is over, CM has left school and CM is no longer on scholarship, Stanford's leverage over him and his fiduciary responsibility are both zero. I am not aware of anything that would allow Stanford to go after scholarship reimbursement. Not that they would even consider it.

I'm sure CM and his family weighed "bad feelings" into the decision they made.