The jump from a limit of 11.7 to 34 available scholarships may be way much too much of a good thing. It’s as if the largest college athletics departments designed a new rule to ensure that no one else will be able to compete with them. They are pulling up the drawbridge and leaving everyone else outside the moat.
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@RJM posted:The jump from a limit of 11.7 to 34 available scholarships may be way much too much of a good thing. It’s as if the largest college athletics departments designed a new rule to ensure that no one else will be able to compete with them. They are pulling up the drawbridge and leaving everyone else outside the moat.
Yup, exactly. Never even considered anyone else. If there is any major pushback that garners anyone's ear it will have to come from the bottom tier teams in the P5 conferences. If they want to fully fund that many scholarships as a rule, they should have come up with a revenue sharing plan. Of course I haven't read the proposal as all I can find are articles about it, but not the details.
Look, right now there is a $2.7 billion dollar lawsuit against the NCAA on behalf of baseball and hockey players over price fixing by limiting scholarships, etc etc. Usually these amounts are determined by what can be won, even if extreme to negotiate down, but that kind of money could pay for a huge chunk of student athletes in the country, to fund every Div 1 student athlete in every sport 100% probably around 8billion a year. Based on 190K Div 1 student athletes and overestimating average tuition (private school avg) of 42K a year.
Point is, there is money, but pushing it off on the individual schools to fund it or not, is lame. Honestly, I still haven't figured out why the NCAA as an organization exists except to launder money.
@HSDad22 posted:Look, right now there is a $2.7 billion dollar lawsuit against the NCAA on behalf of baseball and hockey players over price fixing by limiting scholarships, etc etc. Usually these amounts are determined by what can be won, even if extreme to negotiate down, but that kind of money could pay for a huge chunk of student athletes in the country, to fund every Div 1 student athlete in every sport 100% probably around 8billion a year. Based on 190K Div 1 student athletes and overestimating average tuition (private school avg) of 42K a year.
scholarships are based on total COA not just tuition. You can use a site like https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/ to see the published COA (includes tuition r&b, books, expenses). I think the average of COA of private schools is probably higher than 42k.
@nycdad posted:scholarships are based on total COA not just tuition. You can use a site like https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/ to see the published COA (includes tuition r&b, books, expenses). I think the average of COA of private schools is probably higher than 42k.
just a swag, and I figured I"d use the higher private school to account for all schools, since they split the averages most everywhere between public and private and you can't take an average of an average, I'm guessing the 42K in average tuition is close to overall coa for combined private and public, since those COA numbers seem to be 28K (public) and 58K (private) but not really the point.
