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karstenkibbe said:
My son is now in high school, but played at a FAA middle school. Covid negated his 8th grade season, unfortunately. The school’s AD had the same phiosophy as yours and I had no problem with it. The challenge was that some kids on the roster were really serious about basketball and others not so much. The other thing that was crazy to me was how in middle school, one kid could completely take over a game. There was a kid at Ripp-Cisqua a few years ago and who would dominate and dropped 40 on my son.
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Speaking of Greenwich High and the FAA. The best female player in the state is MacKenzie Nelson. Was the best player in the FCIAC as a freshmen. But, the Fairchester league recruits as much now as the Catholic schools. She is at St.Luke's now and will be verballing to a pretty good D1 school, probably this summer.
 
Let me get this straight, a kid just a few days ago posted an edit along with an Instagram post saying he's committing to UConn, followed shortly by him deleting the post and saying that Hurley doesn't want walk-ons posting these announcements. Then today another walk-on does the exact same thing?
 
Rico444 said:
Let me get this straight, a kid just a few days ago posted an edit along with an Instagram post saying he's committing to UConn, followed shortly by him deleting the post and saying that Hurley doesn't want walk-ons posting these announcements. Then today another walk-on does the exact same thing?
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Unless maybe there was an agreement for this guy to do it first, I don’t know it’s strange.

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I thought this was interesting given that he’s a walk on to UConn.
 
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CL82 said:
Unless maybe there was an agreement for this guy to do it first, I don’t know it’s strange.

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I thought this was interesting given that he’s a walk on to UConn.
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He had offers from Michigan, Xavier, and academic scholarship offers from Brown and Columbia - and still chose to walk on at UConn? Damn, he must have grown up as a huge UConn fan
 
aburks41 said:
He had offers from Michigan, Xavier, and academic scholarship offers from Brown and Columbia - and still chose to walk on at UConn? Damn, he must have grown up as a huge UConn fan
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I don’t know how much faith to put in those things. It may be as simple as he was contacted by those schools. It may be as simple as those were the schools he was interested in.
 
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He has a really nice looking shot. Highlights don't show much of anything else.
 
To win in basketball you need a Johnson . Now we have another Johnson If only he was 7 foot tall then we would have a big
johnson
 
Sometimes, based on performance, walk-ons have been given full scholarships, and it has happened before at UConn.

Time will tell.
 
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Edward Sargent said:
Gonna happen next year in baseball with Norwalk’s own Korey Morton
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That is not remotely the same thing as basketball. Basketball has 13 scholarships for a 13 player roster, baseball has 11.7 scholarships for a 35 player roster
 
navery12 said:
That is not remotely the same thing as basketball. Basketball has 13 scholarships for a 13 player roster, baseball has 11.7 scholarships for a 35 player roster
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Why are there so few scholarships for baseball?
 
bigknight3 said:
Why are there so few scholarships for baseball?
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NCAA rule. I think the theory behind it is it makes fielding teams more affordable for smaller universities since they don’t have to offer a scholarship to every player.

For what it’s worth, I believe the NCAA is currently discussing eliminating scholarship limitations. On one hand it’s a good thing for student athletes since at larger schools every kid will get a scholly, but on the other hand it will likely widen the gulf between the haves and the have nots, causing smaller schools to offer less sports.
 
CL82 said:
on the other hand it will likely widen the gulf between the haves and the have nots, causing smaller schools to offer less sports.
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Or downgrade to Division 2. We might see more sports adopt the FBS/FCS split like in football to let the have-nots compete against each other on a more even playing field.
 
pj said:
Or downgrade to Division 2. We might see more sports adopt the FBS/FCS split like in football to let the have-nots compete against each other on a more even playing field.
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It’s an interesting choice isn’t it? Do you maintain the same number of sports at a lower level or do you reduce the total number of sports and compete only on those which are, if not revenue producing, at least somewhat subsidized by the gate?
 
Is this a player that played at Cardinal Hayes in the Bronx? Vern Giscome's school.
 
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CL82 said:
It’s an interesting choice isn’t it? Do you maintain the same number of sports at a lower level or do you reduce the total number of sports and compete only on those which are, if not revenue producing, at least somewhat subsidized by the gate?
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Yes, that's the choice. But if schools choose to reduce the number of sports and only focus on revenue producers, then they are becoming minor pro sports leagues or entertainment divisions attached to colleges, not college athletics. I would probably start to lose interest in college sports. I loved watching upstart UConn rise from obscurity to the top of college athletics. If that becomes impossible, I'd probably have no more interest in college sports than I now have in pro sports, which is not much.
 
McLovin said:
mvasports.com

Thirty-Four More Student-Athletes Commit to Play in College on Signing Day - Montverde Academy Athletics

Montverde, Fla.— Montverde Academy is excited to announce that thirty-four more senior student-athletes have committed to play their sport at the collegiate level
mvasports.com mvasports.com

Here is an article from May 4th announcing this. Is it really possible that we all missed this? I'm so confused.
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Now I understand why he was so excited. He’s the only one on that list that will be on a blue blood team. Staff definitely going after shooters.
 
pj said:
Yes, that's the choice. But if schools choose to reduce the number of sports and only focus on revenue producers, then they are becoming minor pro sports leagues or entertainment divisions attached to colleges, not college athletics. I would probably start to lose interest in college sports. I loved watching upstart UConn rise from obscurity to the top of college athletics. If that becomes impossible, I'd probably have no more interest in college sports than I now have in pro sports, which is not much.
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I agree with your larger point that college sports and more pro sports it loses it appeal.

I’m a little less cynical about the choices small schools will be forced into. If you can only offer limited number of sports given your budget, why not offer the ones that people actually come to see? That seems like a sensible decision to me.
 
CL82 said:
I agree with your larger point that college sports and more pro sports it loses it appeal.

I’m a little less cynical about the choices small schools will be forced into. If you can only offer limited number of sports given your budget, why not offer the ones that people actually come to see? That seems like a sensible decision to me.
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Are college sports there to serve the student-athletes or the spectators?

I agree that popular sports are more worthy of a place -- there will be more athletes as well as more spectators -- so they should be funded first. But if the choice is between offering more sports and giving more money to the athletes in the popular sports, I'd like to give more students a chance to play college sports, and develop excellence in more sports.

There are similar issues on the academic side. Should a university support unpopular fields like philosophy or classics, or expand popular majors like economics or engineering or pre-med? Does the 40th professor in business add more value than the 2nd in philosophy? It depends on your vision of a university. I would favor breadth. It has a value all its own, allowing students to explore.
 
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