This link will take you to an interesting article regarding the NCAA membership's vote to override Myles Brand and the NCAA Board's decision to increase scholarships in several women's sports. http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/01/09/ncaa.convention.ap/index.html
The thing that caught my eye was the following quote from the Butler Univ. A.D.:
"But there are more concerns about competitive equity," Parry said. "We've seen in a number of sports when there have been reductions that it's been much more competitive across the country. It's logical to conclude that if we go up in the number of scholarships, then a number of schools will stockpile and therefore make competitive imbalance."
I don't know that I agree, but it's certainly something to think about. I don't think the argument applies to baseball because there's already plenty of stockpiling going by the bigger baseball schools. Especially, as Ron Polk has pointed out, in the lottery states.
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