Academic Money ?

For NCAA D1 and D2, it is my understanding that they can not sign you to a national letter of intent unless they are giving you athletic money. (That is why the service academies and Ivy's do not sign national letters of intent - service academies are providing full tuition to all students but it is not an athletic scholarship and Ivy's do not provide any athletic scholarships.)

The situation you are referring to sounds like a preferred walk on status if the coach has made a commitment to have him on the roster.

The answer to your question may be different if it is D3 (D3's do not sign NOL and do not offer athletic money), NAIA or JUCO.

Here are some threads that might answer your questions.

http://hsbaseballweb.com/eve/f...791063613#6791063613

http://hsbaseballweb.com/eve/f...751019582#4751019582

There are lots of other discussions on this topic if you search "academic scholarship"

Good luck! Hope that helps!

2010, look for a PM

Was at baseball camp at Rice last week. Recruiter told the group to not be too hung up on scholarship money if their academic success could qualify them for aid. The only drawback was with academic money, the student athlete was held to the same standards as all incoming students. Athletes on scholarship do not have as high entrance minimums. ACT goes down from 30 to 23 for scholarship players, and I think he said 1100 on SAT. However they are doing it at Rice seems to be working! Just passing on info. Have been envolved in the recruiting process for several generations. If they want a player, they will make it work.

Thanks for the help!

It's definitely a good "problem" to have, and I think we will be able to find the best place for him in all aspects because of it.

Rice often "makes it work" because of the need based $ they can offer due to their enormous endowment. Rice has a huge advantage relative to most other privates. This also has the residual effect of freeing up more baseball scholarship $ to offer other players. So yes, if Rice wants a player they can easily make it work, but this won't necessarily be true with just any school, especially if they are a private that doesn't have the need based aid luxury that Rice does.