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Patriot League Baseball Scholarships

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J justakid100+ posts
"While financial aid has always been available, athletic scholarships have only been given in recent years at Patriot League schools. Basketball scholarships were first allowed beginning with freshmen entering the league in the fall of 1998. In 2001, when American, which gave scholarships in all sports (AU does not play football) entered the league, the league began allowing all schools to do so in sports other than football. Lafayette, the last no athletic scholarships holdout, began granting full rides in basketball and other sports with freshmen entering the school in the fall of 2006. Football scholarships are still limited strictly to need-based aid."

Now, the source on this is Wikipedia -- but it does add to my confusion.
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CPLZCPLZ1,000+ posts
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Originally posted by Oriolesbaseball:
How is patriot league competition compared to other Division 1 conferences?


Last year, the PL ranked 22 of 31 conferences. Usually the top 2 to 3 teams of the PL are very competitive teams. The bottom half tends to be weak. Part of the problem with the low conference RPI is that very few of the teams play a very competitive OOC (out of conference) schedule.

In spite of the fact that the teams in the PL are NY, MA, PA, MD, very few mid week games are scheduled against the better teams in the geographic area, i.e. St. Johns, BC, Penn State, etc. Instead they schedule, NY Tech, NJ Tech, UMBC, LIU, Cornell, Marist, etc. This hurts the conference RPI pretty dramatically, so therefore the RPI doesn't tell the whole story of how competitive the in conference schedule is.
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fenwaysouthfenwaysouth10,000+ posts
This (URL below) was posted the other day on HSB. I was reviewing it this AM. This rates the strength of schedule for D1 schools. From that you can project/determine how difficult a conference is. Patriot is going to be middle to bottom of D1 competition. My understanding of the Patriot is there is only 6 teams that play baseball including; Army, Navy, Lafayette, Lehigh, Bucknell and Holy Cross.

http://hsbaseballweb.com/eve/f...16002781/m/350109463
H highheat15100+ posts

Bucknell, Lehigh, and Lafayette all have baseball scholarships now available but none of them are anywhere close to being fully-funded. Army and Navy obviously have a different setup with their scholarship situation from the other 4 schools, but as of now Holy Cross is the only non-service academy Patriot League institution that does not offer any baseball money.

P Phanatic2008WS500+ posts

Does one know how many scholarships the Bucknell, Lehigh and Lafayette have? Not sure they will have the full 11.7. Also, are these scholarships 4-year commitments to players, or they get renewed yearly? If a player does not get one the first year, will they be considered for one the following year? In fact, is that known to happen generally at D1 schools, if a roster spot/recruited walk on player does well and impresses coaches?? I understand there are no guarantees, but it that a question worth asking the HC/RC? Thanks as always.

keewartkeewart10,000+ posts
Phanatic2008WS posted:

D If a player does not get one the first year, will they be considered for one the following year? In fact, is that known to happen generally at D1 schools, if a roster spot/recruited walk on player does well and impresses coaches?? I understand there are no guarantees, but it that a question worth asking the HC/RC? Thanks as always.

Yes it happens and yes I would ask the coach, if no money is offered. You have all to gain and nothing to loose.

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