Community College Full Ride Athlete - Another State

[Anonymous]

Family friends son has a full ride to community college to play a sport. He lives in South, community college is in Midwest.

I was unaware that community college had sports scholarships and recruited athletes. Is this a feeder to a larger college perhaps? Do the schools expect them to go pro, so education at associates level is sufficient?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Family friends son has a full ride to community college to play a sport. He lives in South, community college is in Midwest.

I was unaware that community college had sports scholarships and recruited athletes. Is this a feeder to a larger college perhaps? Do the schools expect them to go pro, so education at associates level is sufficient?

What college and what sport? I know in baseball there are some strong players who want Power 4 D1 but aren’t quite there who go the JUCO route. There are certain JUCOs know for sending kids to Power 4 D1 and MLB teams.

These are kids who could play for lower D1 (think Farleigh Dickinson as an example) but really not Ivy League material in terms of grades or test scores.

[Anonymous]

It is very common in baseball. It is an affordable way to start your education, and then you transfer to a four year university for your bachelor’s. Some of those guys think they could make the majors - I mean, they are 18 year olds obsessed with a dream - but most know they won’t.

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Anonymous wrote:It is very common in baseball. It is an affordable way to start your education, and then you transfer to a four year university for your bachelor’s. Some of those guys think they could make the majors - I mean, they are 18 year olds obsessed with a dream - but most know they won’t.

I don’t know any of the baseball kids really giving two shits about “starting their education”. The intent is to transfer to a Power 4 baseball program or get drafted into the MLB.

For the ones I know cost isn’t a factor at all in their decision…some are actually pretty well off.

[Anonymous]

"Last Chance U" is a documentary show on Netflix that explores this world. The path is becoming more appealing because a judge ruled that juco might not count against NCAA years of eligibility.

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Anonymous wrote:"Last Chance U" is a documentary show on Netflix that explores this world. The path is becoming more appealing because a judge ruled that juco might not count against NCAA years of eligibility.

The sport is track, so I’m unsure how that translates but perhaps its attempt to get to Olympics on winning on the marathon circuit??

[Anonymous]

If community colleges now offer 4 year degrees and sports how are they not just college?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If community colleges now offer 4 year degrees and sports how are they not just college?

They offer associates degrees, not bachelors degrees. Many students transfer to a four year school to finish. And yes, they are just college. College is college, and people are getting educations in different ways that fit their needs. There are lots of paths, and that is a very good thing.

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Anonymous wrote:If community colleges now offer 4 year degrees and sports how are they not just college?

They offer associates degrees, not bachelors degrees. Many students transfer to a four year school to finish. And yes, they are just college. College is college, and people are getting educations in different ways that fit their needs. There are lots of paths, and that is a very good thing.

I am not at all trying to disparage anyone who goes to community college to save money and then transfer to a 4 year college to finish their degree...but that's not really at all why many athletes do it.

They do it to get picked up by a D1 program and they still preserve all 4 years of D1 eligibility. For baseball, the added benefit of JUCO is you can be drafted into the MLB at anytime while if you attend a 4-year college you aren't draft-eligible until after your junior year.

The kids I know doing it are taking the minimum number of JUCO classes to play. They don't look at their JUCO years as really doing much of anything to get them towards a 4-year degree (because again, if things work out as planned then they are playing say 2 years in JUCO and then 4 years in D1).

[Anonymous]

I have never heard this being popular for track

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Anonymous wrote:I have never heard this being popular for track

I agree, but I can definitely see some JUCO in Portland being some feeder to University of Oregon for track as one example.

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I know a kid who did this for baseball. Restating what someone said above - you retain your 4 years of college eligibility.

But you have to ask yourself, if I wasn't recruited out of HS, how likely am I to be now? If you're not recruited to a top D1 program, smarter move *usually* is to try to be recruited D3. Worse case, you have a great 4 years, a great education, at a known school.

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Anonymous wrote:I know a kid who did this for baseball. Restating what someone said above - you retain your 4 years of college eligibility.

But you have to ask yourself, if I wasn't recruited out of HS, how likely am I to be now? If you're not recruited to a top D1 program, smarter move *usually* is to try to be recruited D3. Worse case, you have a great 4 years, a great education, at a known school.

The ones I know are much better athletes than D3, but low-D1. They pick certain JUCOs that have relationships with Power 4 teams and are known to develop the players into Power 4 players. Some of these kids may do a 5th year at say IMG instead, but that's way more expensive.

Also, to be blunt, the kids I know are never getting into an academic D3 nor an Ivy or Patriot-league D1. These are 900/1000 SAT kids with C+/B- averages.