Multi-year scholarship option approved by NCAA

[Carl Spackler]

You know, I will add more, just in case, because I can never stop, and you actually sound like somebody who might actually know a guy, who knows a guy....and can pass along info.

If a scholarship athlete is trully in need of cash spending money for travel expenses to get home, for whatever.....they're not going to get hung out dry. There are means available. All you need to do is talk to your coaches and get into the athletic offices and ask questions.

There are things called Pell Grants, and other kinds of specific funds set up for NCAA division 1 athletes, that have existed for many years, where you can get money awarded by applying and demonstrating the need basis. The key, being able to demonstrate the need. There's no reason why a scholarship kid, that wants to get home to a far away place from where they are going to school, but can't afford travel expenses for example, can't go through the process that exists, and have that money made available to them.

As for the stipend thing, again, it all goes back to answering the question - what is that money for? I'm against it.

 

[cu73etr]

Doesn't the Pell grant and other forms of financial aid go against the athletic grant in aid??

 

[Carl Spackler]

Doesn't the Pell grant and other forms of financial aid go against the athletic grant in aid??

Good question. I'm not an academic, athletic, of financial aid advisor. I don't know. I don't know everything you know.

I know that scholarships have to be funded. There is money that exchanges hands in a paper trail internally in a university. How grants and/or work related income money all effects that, is a matter for the people that deal with it. I don't have enough room in my brain to keep track of that stuff.

I do know, that if a kid really needs spending money, and can't work, there are options available. That was my point, in continuing this discussion, becuase it wasn't mentioned before.

I am against the stipend. Last thing you need is to start cutting checks to students that they cash on their way to the bar.

The kids that trully need money, have options available to them. Are they good options? Yes, no, maybe so. That's the place to go though, and route to go, building and improving those things, and making work/job income available, rather than simply starting to cut checks to scholarship athletes.

 

[Jerry27]

Boy - I'd love to see the list of yea's vs. nay's in this one.

So, universities now have the option of offering single year or 2, 3 or 4 year scholaships to athletes.

That should make the recruiting world a little more interesting.

Going back to the OP question, here is a link to an article naming the schools from the BCS conferences who voted for it.

http://eye-on-collegefootball.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/24156338/34949199

 

[J187Money]

Good question. I'm not an academic, athletic, of financial aid advisor. I don't know. I don't know everything you know.

I know that scholarships have to be funded. There is money that exchanges hands in a paper trail internally in a university. How grants and/or work related income money all effects that, is a matter for the people that deal with it. I don't have enough room in my brain to keep track of that stuff.

I do know, that if a kid really needs spending money, and can't work, there are options available. That was my point, in continuing this discussion, becuase it wasn't mentioned before.

I am against the stipend. Last thing you need is to start cutting checks to students that they cash on their way to the bar.

The kids that trully need money, have options available to them. Are they good options? Yes, no, maybe so. That's the place to go though, and route to go, building and improving those things, and making work/job income available, rather than simply starting to cut checks to scholarship athletes.

Carl, I'm with you in theory...just not in real life. The process is complicated enough...stipends are easy (even if not the best way to deal with it).

 

[J187Money]

And maybe, just maybe, the next time the school gets a $2/3M bump due to a new TV contract, it doesn't all automatically accrue to the head coach (who, last time I checked...isn't putting his body and future on the line every time out).