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With scholarship limit, college baseball careers come with a cost


Really really good stuff here from the Omaha World-Herald.

"He worked his way to first-team All-Big South and the dean’s list. The final month of his college career, he started the ninth-inning rally in a do-or-die regional game at North Carolina State. He scored the winning run in the super regional at LSU. He hit .387 in the College World Series. That’s all before he made the play that saved Coastal Carolina’s national championship.

Doesn’t get any better, right? Put Anthony Marks on a college baseball billboard.

But there’s something about the Chanticleer hero they don’t know back in Conway, South Carolina, something that didn’t make ESPN or Baseball America, something you won’t see in NCAA commercials.

Marks owes about $150,000 in student loans — and he’s still one semester shy of his communications degree.

He’s a poster child for college baseball’s money problem. Major-conference athletic departments, flush with cash from football TV deals, are spending on luxurious facilities, coaching salaries and new support staff. But little (if any) has trickled down to the dugouts. Tuition continues to rise, but the Division I scholarship limit of 11.7 doesn’t budge."
 
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