Saw this article that the SEC is considering trying to change equivalency scholarships to head count scholarships. Thoughts? Any chance of this happening? Seems unlikely since the 3rd paid coach vote didn't pass, but would be really nice for baseball players if it did.
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If everyone gets a full ride doesnt that mean more guys get zero?
Below are some of the financials for the different conferences that will make some think about the were there is a push. Are the P5's trying to do a jail break? Football $$$ are pushing the envelope?
I didn't realize softball rosters only had 20 or so players. I forgot they didn't need an entire pitching staff. It's pretty wild that softball gets 12 for 20ish spots and baseball gets 11.7 for 35. Sounds like that might need to be where some of the change lies.
As for the headcount scholarships. 85 for football is absolutely ridiculous. There might be 40 guys who get into the game on any given Saturday. Knock it down to 65 and disperse the 20 extra scholarships among other sports. Guys go to school for 4/5 years on scholarship and barely play. It's really a waste.
Dominik85 posted:If everyone gets a full ride doesnt that mean more guys get zero?
They wouldn't consider the change without increasing the total number of scholarships.
PABaseball posted:I didn't realize softball rosters only had 20 or so players. I forgot they didn't need an entire pitching staff. It's pretty wild that softball gets 12 for 20ish spots and baseball gets 11.7 for 35. Sounds like that might need to be where some of the change lies.
As for the headcount scholarships. 85 for football is absolutely ridiculous. There might be 40 guys who get into the game on any given Saturday. Knock it down to 65 and disperse the 20 extra scholarships among other sports. Guys go to school for 4/5 years on scholarship and barely play. It's really a waste.
About half of D1 football is in the FCS, which is limited to 63 full scholarships, but I totally agree that those numbers are excessive. The argument is that football brings in the revenue, but most football programs are net money losers.
Given Title IX (which I am not bashing--just asking), wouldn't any increase in baseball scholarships need to be offset by either reducing scholarships in some other men's sport or increasing them for women's sports? Not necessarily one-for-one, but can you just increase the money available to players in one area? That makes this an even more complicated situation.
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Chico Escuela posted:Given Title IX (which I am not bashing--just asking), wouldn't any increase in baseball scholarships need to be offset by either reducing scholarships in some other men's sport or increasing them for women's sports? Not necessarily one-for-one, but can you just increase the money available to players in one area? That makes this an even more complicated situation.
More than likely, yes. Right now, football is the only sport that has two different counts for different levels of D1 (FBS vs FCS). And of coarse, football has two separate championships. Would baseball ever do anything like that? The changes discussed in the article are pretty dramatic. I don't think anything like this has been seriously considered in years, if not decades. (Maybe it's not that serious now, either.)
I really don't think it would impact the mid level good teams. I don't think the P5 would add anymore players just give them more money. I don't know that there are a lot of kids going to mid-level D1's because of the money if they were offered decent money at P5.
