New commit for UConn?

[CL82]

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

That’s not the choice at all. Athletes on “popular sports” like football or basketball are already on full scholarship. This isn’t a question of taking away a scholarship from some to deserving track athlete so that a basketball player gets a double scholarship, rather it’s a case of a limited pie. If you raise the total number of scholarships that need to be offered for sports which are currently on partial scholarships, it’ll price people out of the market. There’s nothing nefarious in that, it’s just economics. If sports are made to be more expensive, then schools with limited budgets will have to offer less of them.

 

[pj]

That’s not the choice at all. Athletes on “popular sports” like football or basketball are already on full scholarship. This isn’t a question of taking away a scholarship from some to deserving track athlete so that a basketball player gets a double scholarship, rather it’s a case of a limited pie. If you raise the total number of scholarships that need to be offered for sports which are currently on partial scholarships, it’ll price people out of the market. There’s nothing nefarious in that, it’s just economics. If sports are made to be more expensive, then schools with limited budgets will have to offer less of them.

We'll see how things work in this new world. Personally, I would expect that a significant part of the booster/sponsor money that will go to NIL athletes in future might otherwise have gone to the athletic department, and will cannibalize some university revenue. The additional revenue to athletes with this "pro" shift will come in part out of athletic department revenues.

On the expenditure side of the athletic budget, we already see a bifurcation among schools. SEC schools have much larger budgets for coaching staffs than UConn. I phrased my post badly, speaking of giving money to the athletes rather than sports. It should have read "giving more money to the popular sports."

 

[CL82]

Personally, I would expect that a significant part of the booster/sponsor money that will go to NIL athletes in future might otherwise have gone to the athletic department, and will cannibalize some university revenue.

I hadn’t thought about this, but it makes sense to me.

 

[bigknight3]

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-> But when the NCAA transfer portal hit full steam a couple of years ago, coupled with the extra year of eligibility for all student-athletes, the phone calls pretty much stopped. In fact, Johnson never did get a DI offer.

So the 6-foot-4 guard from South Kent Prep decided to change his focus.

“When I told schools he was thinking of being a walk-on instead of going down a level,” South Kent coach Raphael Chillious recalled, “a lot of teams were like, ‘Shoot, we’ll take him as a walk-on anytime.’”

One of those teams was UConn. Dan Hurley liked what he saw from Johnson at an open gym and the UConn staff stayed in touch with him. Next season, Johnson will be a preferred walk-on for the Huskies.

“It just felt right,” Johnson told Hearst Connecticut Media. “I liked it there. I feel like it’s the place for me.” <-

"Johnson Jr. could soon be joined at UConn by another preferred walk-on, Emmett Hendry, a 6-5 guard from Monteverde Academy."