re: Damonic Williams decision day. Looks like LSU is out due to NIL...

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They can. There is no "employment" contract between the player and the team. The only "contract" is the 1 year scholarship agreement to attend the school.

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A coach can kick a player off the team ("cut him") during the season without any real recourse from the player.

While NIL contracts are, in essence, "pay for play" contracts, they aren't employment contracts. Everything you are saying should be allowed IS allowed. A coach can dismiss a player from the team at any time.

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Contrary to popular belief, scholarships are no longer the “1 year deals” they used to be. At least not for autonomy conferences (power 5).

In the power 5 conferences, scholarship non-renewal is treated effectively the same way as scholarship cancellation. The team has to have a valid, non-athletic reason to decline to renew a scholarship for a player with remaining eligibility. There is a list of valid reasons in the D1 manual that includes stuff like code of conduct violations, failing to meet academic requirements, etc. - but it’s explicitly against the rules to non-nenew based on athletic performance.

So while a coach can theoretically dismiss a player for any reason, that doesn’t mean the coach can pull (or non-renew) the player’s scholarship for any reason. And for the time being, the scholarship limit still acts as an effective cap on the “recruited” roster.

This rule was implemented to eliminate the practice at top programs of oversigning and “processing” players to get back under the limit. That said, we all know players still get processed. But nowadays it requires at least some amount of cooperation from the player. Theoretically, a player who is told to look elsewhere can say “no.”