The NCAA’s One-Year Renewable Athletic Scholarship – The Modern Reserve Clause

By Robert J. Romano, founding partner of The Romano Sports & Entertainment   The NCAA's mandate that all athletic scholarships be one-year renewable awards is analogous, in theory, to baseball's historic reserve clause. The development of baseball's reserve system occurred in the late 1800s and early 1900s, when the owners in both the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs and The American Association of Baseball Clubs entered into the "national agreement" that proscribed a uniform