coachld posted:Just to counter a point made in previous post and to demonstrate what others have said in terms of each program doing things differently. My son's team will head into spring season with at least 2 preferred walk-ons competing for time on the bump. Both were late bloomers who have upside but unproven at this point. I know that at least one of them was told...show us what you can do in the spring and we will revisit athletic money. This specific coach is known for taking some risks with late bloomers or beneath the radar kind of kids with potential upside.
I posted this in the ABCA thread but perhaps it fits better here. The data below is interesting -- average of 24 on a D1 team receiving baseball $$, which means ~10 guys are not. Average number of scholarships is 10.58 -- half the programs have maximum 11.7 and the other half average about 9.5 scholarships
FWIW: https://d1baseball.com/news/ab...mer-2019-hot-topics/
"No action is imminent in the decades-long quest to raise college baseball’s scholarship limit from 11.7, but it remains No. 1 on the wish list for a great many coaches, and also for the ABCA.
First, some data provided by the ABCA:
Total Division I baseball programs in 2018: 297
Limit of scholarship equivalencies: 11.7
Number of programs offering 11.7 scholarships: 149 (50 percent)
Average number of equivalencies awarded: 10.58
Average number of student-athletes receiving aid: 24 (out of a maximum 27)
Proportion of equivalencies vs. student-athletes on aid: 44 percent"