Buckeye 2015 posted:eck, any of you who have kids playing college baseball have all heard from all of the people who assume because your kid got a scholarship to play baseball that's he is "going to school for free". Yes, because our kids all got full rides like basketball and football right?
Sure some people don't know it, but when my son started college, I heard it from people who had kids that were hoping to play college baseball....who were already sophomores in HS. They were a little shocked to find out that their hope of their kid going to school for free by playing baseball wasn't gonna happen.
One of the first things that the coaches in my son's program tell parents and players is: If they said they got a full ride, they're lying. No one gets a full baseball scholarship. A partial? Maybe? Some financial aid? More than likely. And, maybe some form of academic scholarship too. But, a full ride from the baseball program? It doesn't happen.