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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I understand what the PP is saying. Its more of announcement rather than achievement. [/quote]

How is it not both?[/quote]

I mean an achievement is being recruited and offered a scholarship. Some of the European kids are recruited over here and actually get the fully athletic scholarship. That is a big deal because of the fact soccer doesn't make any money for the school. So it can be done. Im sure if Christian Pulisic would have been awarded a fully athletic scholarship had he chose that route. I mean soccer players announcing where they will be paying tuition to play college soccer is a far less achievement than an AAU basketball player being awarded a fully athletic scholarship. I love soccer but I dont love how the game is structured in the US. [/quote]

You do not understand the difference in scholarships between the various sports.

Any player in any sport who is able to play at a D1 level has accomplished something. It is not the student athletes fault that the NCAA limits scholarships for various sports.

There are very few full rides in soccer period but the expectations and demands of the player to even be recruited is no less significant than it is for other sports that are ABLE per NCAA rules to offer ALL players full scholarships.

Full ride, partial or no scholarship, the player still had to be talented enough to make the team at a D1 level and that is an achievement. [/quote]

This is right. Football and basketball scholarships are fully funded at the top D1 schools. Meaning only a handful of walk-ons at the end of the bench are not receiving a full scholarship. This is because these sports drive revenue, of course, so it makes financial sense for them to attract the best players.

Generally speaking, sports that are not football and basketball do not drive revenue for the schools, so a cap is placed on how many scholarships they can hand out.

Being the number tenth best player on the men's soccer roster at VA Tech, and getting a partial scholarship, is no less an athletic achievement than being the fiftieth best player on the football roster, who receives a full scholarship, simply because one sport generates a ton of money and the other does not. 
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