IF NLI signed, is it still possible to receive future Acad. $?

Yes you can get more academic money and even BB money. At the end of each year your offer has to be renewed. My son was at max academic money but had a $2000 increase in BB money after his fall of the soph years.

The player is currently a senior in high school, with a signed NLI? The money agreed to in the NLI is athletic money and independent of academic money. As long as he meets the NCAA thresholds for making academic money exempt (1200, 3.5, or top 10% if D1) and he meets the school's usual requirements for academic aid, he can be awarded academic money, without it affecting the baseball program.

His baseball money can be increased at any time, or decreased after each college season. Academic money can be awarded to a college freshman based on high school perfomance or SAT/ACT scores. After his freshman year, academic money is based on college GPA, and other factors determined by the college.

Thanks for the information Bobble & 3Finger. My son is a 2011, so the question was more hypothetical. His cumulative GPA is just over 3.4, and I've been stressing the importance of getting it back over 3.5.

3Finger, do the same rules apply in D2 & D3 for Academic money? Like I said, I really want my son to understand how much he can help mom & dad!

Well, let's take this step by step. Colleges may award scholarships to anybody. Players in a NCAA sponsored sport are subject to more restrictions. In D1 baseball, a team may award the equvalent of up to 11.7 scholarships, and this is usually spread over 25 players or so. These athletic scholarships are based on athletic performance, reputation, or potential. D2 allows 9.0 equivalencies, and D3 allows exactly zero.

In D3, a baseball player may carry a scholarship, but it must have been awarded without regard to athletic capability and it must fit the pattern of awards to non-athletes. In D2 and D1, some scholarships are exempt from the calculation of 11.7/9.0 equvalencies. Typically these are termed academic scholarships, and must have been awarded without regard for athletic capability and fit the pattern, etc. In addition, for these scholarships to be exempt, the NCAA requires that the player has a 3.5 GPA, or 1200/105 SAT/ACT score, or be in the top 10% of their high school class for D1. In D2 it is 3.5, 1140/100, or upper 20%. In D3, there is no equivalency calculation, and nothing to be exempt from.

It's good to have a 3.5, and in one sense it allows the player to receive academic money without affecting the pool of allowed equivalencies. But this is only true if the college generally awards academic money in a similar amount to non-athletes with similar academic qualifications.

Thank you 3Finger...btw, I know others have said it, but you're an amazing asset on this site!

3Finger's blessing to us is not just his knowledge, and not just the comprehensiveness and reliability of it, but also the fact that he is so generous with his time in explaining what he knows to us and taking the time to write it down.

A blessing indeed. Thank you 3Finger!

As usual, 3FG explains everything so we can all understand it. Thank you again.

Also, regarding academic schollies. They vary greatly by school as to what they offer and how much. Then if your're lucky (or smart) enough to qualify you must maintain a certain GPA in college for the academic money NOT to be counted against the team's athletic aid. Interesting that at my son's college to maintain his academic scholly he only has to have a 2.0 GPA. But for the money NOT to count against the team he has to have a 3.0. I'm noticing the older he gets and the classes get tougher, it's tougher to maintain that 3.0 and above.

So, again more reason to really stress academics in high school. It does often really pay off!