Upper middle class family claiming “full ride (sports) scholarship” to small D3 private college?
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Anonymous
Once more, the official D1 baseball scholarship policy is as follows: D1 baseball programs can have up to 11.7 scholarships per team, but not every program awards the full allotment. The scholarships are equivalencies, meaning the value of the scholarships can be distributed among the team in different ways. Each scholarship athlete must receive at least 25% of the total program allotment. Let's just say the total value of scholarships is 11.7 * $50,000 = $585,000. You can give 11 players on a 50 man roster $50,000 and a 12th player $35,000. Alternatively, you can give 46 players $12,500 each. It's up to the coach to decide. Typically it is somewhere between those extremes where like 50% of the team gets between 25% - 100%, and the rest get zero but they are on the team and are accepted to the college. |
Anonymous
And an Olympic level nephew swimmer. The odds of one person you know getting a full ride in either of those sports is vanishingly small. Yet you know 3. Not buying it. |
Anonymous
DP. What a weird take. Dude could work at a sports agency, or Nike, or IMG, or literally anywhere. You do know that shit tons of kids get full rides to D1 schools, right? You think most MLB players paid full freight? Feel free to be the fool. I won't stop you. |
Anonymous
Shit tons for basketball and football. Absolutely not shit tons for baseball and swimming. It’s just not happening. |
Anonymous
4.3% of MLB players have a college degree. So yeah, you keep telling yourself they’re giving out free rides left and right. Baseball players can be drafted right out of HS. A small percentage are coming from college. So no, MOST MLB players are not getting full rides in college. |
Anonymous
This article disagrees with you. https://baseballcentric.com/division-i-baseball-stats/ |
Anonymous
.1% of college athletes get full rides. And you know 3 of that .1%. Sure. |
Anonymous
In the DMV travel players in sports like lacrosse, soccer, field hockey, swimming, rowing want to attend top tier schools no matter if D1 or D3. That list closely aligns with USNews Top 50 universities and top 20 SLACs. Most don’t care if it’s D1 or D3 as long it has a brand recognition outside of the sport and it’s double win if it has both. Of these 70 schools (not all have the sports at D1/3 level), majority of the top 25 universities and top 10 SLACs don’t offer merit (do not offer athletic) and if they are D1 non ivy they offer some but not much money in athletic scholarships. Outside of those 35 schools, the remaining D3s in that ideal college list do offer very limited merit scholarships but offer financial aid and again no athletic scholarships and the D1s remaining on the list have both merit and athletic scholarships to offer. The D3s outside of these 70 schools are trying to get as many students enrolled so they use their D3 athletic strategy to recruit and make those kids feel special and throw token merit dollars to them and there would do the same for any applicant to get them to come to the school. |
Anonymous
| I see DCUMs deranged anti-athlete posters are still stewing. Have they posted more racist posts that get deleted? |
Anonymous
What are you talking about? |
Anonymous
D3 soccer players don't play year round - they have a fall season, they have few friendlies in the Spring. The coach can't practice or train them after the completion of the fall season until late feb/early March. They can train by themselves, captain practices but the game and training schedule is significantly less than D1. Here is an overview of D3 https://ncaaorg.s3.amazonaws.com/committees/d3/saac/D3SAAC_TimeDemandsResources.pdf. |
Anonymous
| It’s possible the scholarship is for only the first year. Then the family is on the hook to pay for the rest of the college degree. I’ve seen this happen elsewhere- small colleges are hurting right now enrollment is way down. |
Anonymous
There are a fair number of kids drafted after their junior year of college and they leave early. They don’t have a degree, but they went to college. You also have to look at only US players to do an accurate sort of analysis. Zero DR, Japanese, Mexican, etc MLB players go to college and they probably make up 40%-50% of all MLB players. If you look at the MLB draft, about 50% of 1st round and about 25% of 2nd round are HS kids. After 2nd round, it is 90%+ college players, though again, many are juniors. |
Anonymous
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You all are so noxious and petty. Congrats to all the D3 players who get to continue their love of sport and any merit recieved.
—Nonsport parent (DC played through Varsity and will not play in college) |
Anonymous
You’re missing the point. I’m super happy for the kids - 100%. I take issue with the obnoxious parents that lie about it to impress people. They’re the real a$$holes here. |