This story (if you haven't seen it already) will make you a bit ill. It's hard enough to get a scholarship, but this makes a mockery of it.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120485166974418241.html...=hpp_us_inside_today
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yes, I agree. Does make me ill. What a mockery
My outrage in the article is the statement basketball gets 13 scholarships.
Basketball teams usually have 8 or 9 man rotations. Players get full rides who will never see anything more than garbage time over their four year careers.
Baseball teams utilize about eighteen, nineteen players with a starting nine, four or five starting pitchers, three relievers and a couple of utility players. Yet the baseball team has to share 11.7 rides with 25 players.
I can see what USC is doing. It's pathetic academically and athletically. But it makes good business sense. This kid will ride the pine with two or three other full scholarship players. But he will increase attendance. There will be positive ROI on the kid's ride.
Basketball teams usually have 8 or 9 man rotations. Players get full rides who will never see anything more than garbage time over their four year careers.
Baseball teams utilize about eighteen, nineteen players with a starting nine, four or five starting pitchers, three relievers and a couple of utility players. Yet the baseball team has to share 11.7 rides with 25 players.
I can see what USC is doing. It's pathetic academically and athletically. But it makes good business sense. This kid will ride the pine with two or three other full scholarship players. But he will increase attendance. There will be positive ROI on the kid's ride.