ValpoCory said:
Steve Smith approves this message.
I approve this message too. The inequity in college baseball is ridiculous.ValpoCory said:
Steve Smith approves this message.
Crash Davis said:Inapprove this message too. The inequity in college baseball is ridiculous.ValpoCory said:
Steve Smith approves this message.
I think it's a mix of a few things.ChipOC said:Crash Davis said:Inapprove this message too. The inequity in college baseball is ridiculous.ValpoCory said:
Steve Smith approves this message.
And it all starts with the ridiculous limit on the number of scholarships that I've yet to hear a reason it exists.
Good summary.90sBear said:I think it's a mix of a few things.ChipOC said:Crash Davis said:Inapprove this message too. The inequity in college baseball is ridiculous.ValpoCory said:
Steve Smith approves this message.
And it all starts with the ridiculous limit on the number of scholarships that I've yet to hear a reason it exists.
First off with football having so many scholarships, it helps to balance things out money-wise in terms of Title IX
For many schools, especially small ones, it makes the sport less expensive to maintain as baseball isn't really a money maker.
For large state schools it gives them an advantage over successful private schools for the reasons in the article above.
Even successful private schools that have a large endowment (Rice, Vanderbilt) could see it as an advantage over the likes of TCU, Baylor, etc. as they have additional funds to help offset cost, again as mentioned in the article.
Basically there are too many NCAA member schools the rule benefits.
It's unclear how much he got from this article: It might have been full.beerman said:
I believe it was Jason Jennings.......
or this one:Quote:
That was a good thing for Baylor. The following summer former Baylor head coach, Steve Smith, and company watched Jennings in a summer league game and immediately offered the stocky, hard-throwing pitcher/catcher combo a scholarship.
"Baylor came knocking, offered me a scholarship and told me as long as I passed, (the scholarship amount) wouldn't go down," Jennings said.
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Drafted in the 54th round by the Arizona Diamondbacks, Jennings turned down the offer to turn pro and came to Baylor in the fall of 1996.
"I'd say I was about 95 percent dead set on coming to Baylor," he said. "It would have had to be a high-round draft pick for me to give up the scholarship that Coach (Steve) Smith offered me. I think mentally and physically, I wasn't mature enough yet for pro ball. And in hindsight, after those three years at Baylor when I got in drafted in 1999, I knew I was ready."
Title IXChipOC said:Crash Davis said:Inapprove this message too. The inequity in college baseball is ridiculous.ValpoCory said:
Steve Smith approves this message.
And it all starts with the ridiculous limit on the number of scholarships that I've yet to hear a reason it exists.
Trae Davis was either full ride or close to it.SSadler said:
DAnybody other than Cooter or CT remember the last "full ride" scholarship guy at Baylor.
I THINK I do, but I've not been around lately.
First off with football having so many scholarships, it helps to balance things out money-wise in terms of Title IXBornAgain said:
In 2015 Smith was primarily against rising tuition costs for the student athlete....but it seems to me that at Baylor a student athlete could receive academic and athletic aid. was this true then? is this true today? According to the article a student need to have either a 105 ACT sum or 1200ACT or 3.5 GA or top 10% graduating class...>Vidmate iTunes Notepad++ to receive academic aid.. Is that still the case? for example if I have a 3.5 or better GPA and I am good enough to play baseball but only on academic aid...do I receive aid based on my 3.5 GPA ? I would receive what any student would qualify for with the same 3.5 GPA correct? or am I reading this wrong?
I know at Rice you get either academic or athletic support not both. Isnt there also some aid based on family income for all students?