Moore's kicking prowess drew the attention of schools like Arkansas State and Oklahoma State, but no scholarship offers.

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"It was basically a free ride to a school that probably I wouldn't have been able to afford if there were no scholarship, " said Zolp.

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Moreover, it is not uncommon for certificates to be issued by self-proclaimed experts or painting restorers who have no real authority or scholarship about the artist, and whose guarantees carry no real weight in the actual market.

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Unlike their athletes (who still face a transferring penalty for breaching their letter-of-intent if their coach leaves), coaches have no waiting period when switching schools and until this change in the length of a scholarship, schools had no waiting period to replace a player dismissed under a non-renewed scholarship.

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But when no school offered a scholarship, he enrolled at the University of Maryland as a walk-on.

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No use winning a scholarship from an outside source, since the college will just dock that sum from its own scholarship.

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Entering college on the cheerleading scholarship he'd won was no longer an option.

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As if that wasn't a big enough obstacle, no sooner had the ink dried on the law than Education Secretary Arne Duncan rescinded the scholarship offer to children admitted for next year, making the program's shuttering a fait accompli.

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