JUCO Offers

It varies program to program pretty damatically. Daytona, Manatee, Hillsborough, Santa Fe and St. Pete, have excellent accomadations. St. Johns is on the rough side. Some programs like Polk give you a dollar allowance and you need to find your own.

My son was offered by several. A very good package that was offered at Manatee included Tuition, Books, Housing and a Food allowance for the cafateria and a debit like card to local resturants for weekends.

Daytona was nice as well with Tuition, Books, Housing Food from the cafateria and a discount at select resturants around town.

Polk on the other hand provided Tuition, an allowance for housing (find your own) an allowance for food (minimal) and an allowance for books (not enough).

So it does vary.

Where those first offers or did you negotiate to that level?

Those were the offers and are the basic 100% offers. You just need to be aware that different programs work differently. For instance at Daytona the school owns the bookstore, so the athletic department gets gooks loaned to them that they provide to players, no out of pocket expense. At Polk the school sub-contracted the bookstore and gave a book allowance which was not enough to cover the cost of books.

Some programs either own or have long term leases on condo's. They arrange for 4 players to share 2 bedroom condo's so there is no out of pocket expense.

Other programs will give you $250 per month for housing and then you are on your own.