old_school posted:10/4 Buckeye my bad!
I get so aggravated and I probably should just ignore it because it honestly doesn't matter but there is a huge % in the baseball community that believe it. Like you mentioned Vandy, fair enough I agree. Nobody believes these kids who are studs are going there getting the 25% min divided by 25 kids...and nobody believe that the ones who aren't getting baseball money aren't getting ridiculous amounts of "academic money" over and beyond reasonable. Don't get me wrong, I am actually on board with it, if was a coach I would want it as well and work damn hard to find the right people at my school to facilitate it!!
Again I gave the example of it higher up in this thread where I have a family member who benefited from it in another sport, I know for certain that is as true as any of us are here typing! I know for a fact it also happens at the D3 level so it sure as a heck is going on all over the place.
Does anyone really believe that the top 50 70 schools can fill rosters up of 35 with 11.7 and no other support from the school? In schools that have boosters who care and they spend millions on the facilities...it just isn't reasonable but yet many smart honest good intentioned people either believe it or are just lying to themselves because they want to believe it.
ok end rant! have a great night.
Old school....you are absolutely correct. Depending on the school, it's not tough to get academic money coming out of HS. My son was a 25% kid as far as baseball money....but he also had a little more than that in academic money. At a state school the qualifications are clearly spelled out on their website....with regard to HS GPA and ACT. You meet both you get $XXXX. When the coach called and offered he said you'll get $XXXX baseball money and $XXXX academic money. So we knew the total. Of course my son has to keep his grades up to keep the academic money....so that's on him, but his total $$$$ was over 50% of the cost of attendance....while costing the baseball team 25%