UConn will offer Full Cost Scholarships for Student Athletes.

[huskymedic]

http://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-huskies/hc-uconn-full-cost-attendance-0131-20150130-story.html

>>All students on a full athletic scholarship will receive these "full-cost-of-attendance" scholarships, which are expected to cost the athletic department an additional $1 million to $1.5 million annually. The increase in aid for each student-athlete will range from $3,000 to $4,000, depending on whether they are in-state or out-of-state. The stipends are designed to cover costs outside of tuition, books, room, and board, and make up for money athletes miss out on because they can't get a part-time job like other students.<<

>>It is a direct response to a recent change in the NCAA Division I governing structure that grants increased autonomy to the Power Five conferences, allowing them to create some of their own rules – specifically those related to student-athlete welfare issues. Full-cost-of-attendance scholarships were approved in one of the first votes by the major conferences.<<

>>"The NCAA is very clear on what schools are allowed to provide to student-athletes and what they can't provide," said UConn athletic director Warde Manuel. "UConn, like most of our counterparts, has tried historically to give our student-athletes everything that is permissible for them to achieve success academically and athletically. The NCAA now recognizes that a full-cost-of-attendance scholarship will allow student-athletes the total experience of being a college student. We support this change and are currently studying different strategies to implement exactly how we will provide stipends."<<

 

[Woof 101]

" We support this change and are currently studying different strategies to implement exactly how we will provide stipends."
Meaning ...
We are going to try and run with the big dogs but have to figure out how to pay for it...Let the beeotching, moaning, screaming, wailing, chest thumping, growling, howling and down right pizzed off taxpayer complaining begin.

 

[Kitaman]

It sounds good, but for this old fart can someone please summarize how the changes/enhancements affect players, team and possible recruiting?

 

[pnow15]

No more Hungry Huskies?

 

[azescobar]

This is expected, but very good news nonetheless. Without providing the full cost of attendance scholarships, UConn would be at a serious competitive disadvantage relative to the P5 schools (it pains me every time to write "P5"). No recruit in their right mind would go to a school that doesn't offer these added incentives if another school does. I think that the Big East schools will follow suit at least for basketball. The problem is that probably half of the American will not, further weakening this conference. It is a good showing for UConn to these other conferences that it is serious about competing at the highest level, even though that has always been the case.