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Scholarships and the ncaa

Bighit15Bighit155,000+ posts
I have a friend who has a son at a d-2. He was offered a 7000 dollar athletic scholarship. He was also offered the University scholarship for 10000 dollars. Here is the kicker. He was told that if he accepted the 10000 scholarship that he would not be able to get the athletic for 7000 because he just missed qualifying outright for the 10000 dollar scholly and they voted to give it to him.

Now here is the question. Will this preclude him from ever getting any athletic money.? What if he maintains the grades needed to continue the academic scholarship? Would that allow him to next year receive both athletic and academic? Would the fact that he was voted to be given it before carry over year to year?

Any help from the posters would be appreciated.
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O Orlando1,000+ posts
I'm operating on memory here (always dangerous at my age), but I believe academic money trumps athletic money for tuition. With Bright Futures in Florida, the coaches explained that if a student qualified for the 50 or 75% levels, athletic money couldn't make up the difference, only replace it. But athletic money could pay for room, books, or a meal plan.

They wouldn't want to offer tuition money if the player was already schollied in -- it would just be taking scholarship funds out of the pot that may have gotten them another player.
L lhpmom100+ posts
The way we've understood it has been that you can have a combination of athletic scholarships and academic scholarships, A lot of state schools offer a combination of athletic/academic. Some private institutions don't offer any academic.
But there cannot be a combination of athletic schollies and financial aide-need based. Aide would offset the athletic. Outside scholarships affect everything differently, too. A lot of it's in the specific wording of the scholarship. Like if the word "player" or "athlete" is worded in the scholarship it will offset the athletic scholarship and count against it. I'd check out the NCAA site to be sure.
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S Savannah100+ posts
Ahhhhh, this gets a little complicated. Besides the NCAA you also have individual states and their rules along with their specific programs. For instance, here in Georgia, we have the HOPE scholarship. This is 100% state lottery funded program that gives a full tuition to any and everyone that is able to maintain a "B" average in school. In fact, Georgia Tech. and Georgia are very ofter accused of roster loading because of all this extra money. In Georgia they are able to take a combination on monies.

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