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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Essentially get rid of BRYC, FCV and Metro. [/quote]

agreed.  The 3 or so good players from those leagues will find a spot somewhere the rest/most of the team can play rec somewhere or High School.  Like they should anyway.  All they are doing is paying for sub par coaches to pump their kids full of promises of D1 play at VMI.[/quote]

Kids are going for VMI and citadel on free rides. You keep bringing that up like it’s a joke.

Here is what your missing in your attempt to be funny

1. 120,000 dollar savings
2. A good education for FREE
3. Influential alumni network

If they do commission

4. Graduate and become a officer 
5. Get discharged at 26 years old with more training and experience then there counterparts
6. Extremely marketable
7. GI bill for masters or can use for their kids in the future (another 120,000 in savings)

So laugh it up. You lack big picture vision. [/quote]

This is incorrect.

VMI is not a service academy, but a state-run military school.  Service academies, like Annapolis, West Point and the AF Academy do not charge tuition, but they do require all graduates to serve 5 years of active duty, while VMI has no active duty requirement and charges cadets for room/board, uniforms and tuition (not 1 and 2 are wrong). All USMA graduates receive regular commissions in the US Army, while VMI graduates seeking commissions through ROTC have no guarantee of a regular commission.  Graduates of West Point are though of highly and "extremely marketable" throughout the country, while most people who are not in South Carolina (Citadel) or VMI (Virginia) view these schools as places for kids who couldn't get into the service academies are are "playing soldier."  (No. 3 is wrong).  For instance, the Citadel's most notable alumni include Pat Conroy (the writer) and Fritz Hollings (a senator from SC), while West Point includes Buzz Aldrin, Douglas McArthur, Dwight Eisenhower, Ulysses Grant and John Pershing.

If you want to go to college and earn a commission on graduation, many schools offer ROTC programs.  In fact, these programs are the only way that Citadel and VMI graduates end up in the Armed Forces, as those institutions have no affiliation with the U.S. armed forces, save their respective ROTC programs.  Nos 4-7 are correct, but they are correct about any ROTC program and are in no way specific to VMI or Citadel.
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So get a free ride elsewhere and commission. Good luck[/quote]

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