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Anonymous wrote:With only a very few exceptions, the only full ride D1 athletic scholarships (for males at least) are for football and basketball. All others are partials. Half if lucky, but more likely 1/3 or 1/4. That makes the D3 full scholarship boast even more absurd.

Absolute horseshit. My nephew got a full ride for swimming and my coworkers sons- both of them- got full rides for baseball.

Is your nephew a world class swimmer? Full rides can happen but they are exceedingly rare. If he’s not heading to the Olympics he didn’t get a full ride.

Again- thats me youre quoting, and yes, he is connected with the Olympics.

Are you sure your coworker didn't say "my kid got a baseball scholarship," which you interpreted to be a "full scholarship" and you now know to be false?

Am I sure I understand the situation of the guy who sits next to me from 8-5, M-F, 5 days a week for the last 6 years? Yeah, I'm sure.

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Anonymous wrote:With only a very few exceptions, the only full ride D1 athletic scholarships (for males at least) are for football and basketball. All others are partials. Half if lucky, but more likely 1/3 or 1/4. That makes the D3 full scholarship boast even more absurd.

Absolute horseshit. My nephew got a full ride for swimming and my coworkers sons- both of them- got full rides for baseball.

Is your nephew a world class swimmer? Full rides can happen but they are exceedingly rare. If he’s not heading to the Olympics he didn’t get a full ride.

Again- thats me youre quoting, and yes, he is connected with the Olympics.

Are you sure your coworker didn't say "my kid got a baseball scholarship," which you interpreted to be a "full scholarship" and you now know to be false?

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Anonymous wrote:With only a very few exceptions, the only full ride D1 athletic scholarships (for males at least) are for football and basketball. All others are partials. Half if lucky, but more likely 1/3 or 1/4. That makes the D3 full scholarship boast even more absurd.

Absolute horseshit. My nephew got a full ride for swimming and my coworkers sons- both of them- got full rides for baseball.

Is your nephew a world class swimmer? Full rides can happen but they are exceedingly rare. If he’s not heading to the Olympics he didn’t get a full ride.

Again- thats me youre quoting, and yes, he is connected with the Olympics.

So you know THREE kids with full rides, one of which is “connected” with the Olympics, and one of which Played pro baseball already?
You should go play the lottery stat.

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Anonymous wrote:With only a very few exceptions, the only full ride D1 athletic scholarships (for males at least) are for football and basketball. All others are partials. Half if lucky, but more likely 1/3 or 1/4. That makes the D3 full scholarship boast even more absurd.

Absolute horseshit. My nephew got a full ride for swimming and my coworkers sons- both of them- got full rides for baseball.

Is your nephew a world class swimmer? Full rides can happen but they are exceedingly rare. If he’s not heading to the Olympics he didn’t get a full ride.

Again- thats me youre quoting, and yes, he is connected with the Olympics.

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Anonymous wrote:With only a very few exceptions, the only full ride D1 athletic scholarships (for males at least) are for football and basketball. All others are partials. Half if lucky, but more likely 1/3 or 1/4. That makes the D3 full scholarship boast even more absurd.

Absolute horseshit. My nephew got a full ride for swimming and my coworkers sons- both of them- got full rides for baseball.

False. Swimming? Baseball? Nope.

Agree. D1 coaches are allowed a certain amount of scholarship $$. They usually divide it among the recruits. You would have to have a pro level kid to get a full scholarship. And both of PP’s coworkers sons got full rides? Looks like that family is pulling an OP.

That's me you're quoting, and, no, they aren't FOS. It's the internet so feel free to disbelieve but I've spent 6 years sitting next to this guy watching his sons turn into beast studs. The younger played for the Padres for 4 or 5 seasons.

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Anonymous wrote:With only a very few exceptions, the only full ride D1 athletic scholarships (for males at least) are for football and basketball. All others are partials. Half if lucky, but more likely 1/3 or 1/4. That makes the D3 full scholarship boast even more absurd.

Absolute horseshit. My nephew got a full ride for swimming and my coworkers sons- both of them- got full rides for baseball.

False. Swimming? Baseball? Nope.

Agree. D1 coaches are allowed a certain amount of scholarship $$. They usually divide it among the recruits. You would have to have a pro level kid to get a full scholarship. And both of PP’s coworkers sons got full rides? Looks like that family is pulling an OP.

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Anonymous wrote:With only a very few exceptions, the only full ride D1 athletic scholarships (for males at least) are for football and basketball. All others are partials. Half if lucky, but more likely 1/3 or 1/4. That makes the D3 full scholarship boast even more absurd.

Absolute horseshit. My nephew got a full ride for swimming and my coworkers sons- both of them- got full rides for baseball.

What PP was saying is that basketball and football have their own unique designation where all recruited athletes get a full ride. Or put another way, 85 players are given full scholarships, which is likely the players that dress for games.

Baseball works the following (understand there are usually 50 players on a D1 baseball team):

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.

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Anonymous wrote:With only a very few exceptions, the only full ride D1 athletic scholarships (for males at least) are for football and basketball. All others are partials. Half if lucky, but more likely 1/3 or 1/4. That makes the D3 full scholarship boast even more absurd.

Absolute horseshit. My nephew got a full ride for swimming and my coworkers sons- both of them- got full rides for baseball.

Is your nephew a world class swimmer? Full rides can happen but they are exceedingly rare. If he’s not heading to the Olympics he didn’t get a full ride.

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Anonymous wrote:With only a very few exceptions, the only full ride D1 athletic scholarships (for males at least) are for football and basketball. All others are partials. Half if lucky, but more likely 1/3 or 1/4. That makes the D3 full scholarship boast even more absurd.

Absolute horseshit. My nephew got a full ride for swimming and my coworkers sons- both of them- got full rides for baseball.

False. Swimming? Baseball? Nope.

Anonymous wrote:With only a very few exceptions, the only full ride D1 athletic scholarships (for males at least) are for football and basketball. All others are partials. Half if lucky, but more likely 1/3 or 1/4. That makes the D3 full scholarship boast even more absurd.

Absolute horseshit. My nephew got a full ride for swimming and my coworkers sons- both of them- got full rides for baseball.

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Anonymous wrote:Look D# is incredibly bad Inermural athetheletes at most D1 schools would crush those at D3 schools!

Intermural beats D3? lol. A top D3 in most sports is full of kids that could have played mid/low D1 but preferred to balance sports with an education.

Not intramural, but an SEC or ACC club team in say baseball could legitimately maybe win the D3 national championships. Not to say they would…but would be in the conversation. I would imagine Lynchburg and Salisbury (winners or D3 finalists the last several years) probably get their fair share of near D1 talent.

The UNC club baseball team also has kids that could have played D1 at other schools but either didn’t want a less academic D1 or didn’t want to have a 60 hour per week job of playing baseball and the crazy travel schedule.

The UNC club team would likely beat nearly every academic D3 in the NESCAC considering I know plenty of low 80s kids recruited to those schools because yes you need the grades and scores for those schools. Emory or JHU likely a different matter.

Agree with this, my kid plays on a club team that absolutely destroyed D3 teams when they played them. The team does win club national championships. The club team practices and plays as much or more than most D3 teams (all year play)

When and where do those match ups happen? Where do you live where there are so many D3 schools available for this?

There are athletes who pick D3 schools as they do not want to practice and play all year round.

I know it's hard for some of you to imagine that not everyone has the same goals as you do or that you do for your children.

This is not the experience of D3 athletes I know in multiple sports. They do in fact train/practice all year round, though perhaps not in the same number of hours as a D1 player.

Yes, I am the PP and should have clarified. The D3 athletes I know do train/practice all year round, but nowhere near the hours of a D1 team. Nowhere. The off season practices are "captains" practices, not with the coaches.

Anonymous wrote:With only a very few exceptions, the only full ride D1 athletic scholarships (for males at least) are for football and basketball. All others are partials. Half if lucky, but more likely 1/3 or 1/4. That makes the D3 full scholarship boast even more absurd.

This is accurate for males today. Look at a sport like lacrosse. There are incredibly few full rides or even half rides. Most on the team don’t play much. But the kids do gain entry into competitive schools.

D3 should be looked at more often. A friend had four lacrosse playing boys. One of them, a bright accounting major, opted to W and L where he was a first All American defenseman all four years. There was never any question of playing time. He would have been a bench sitter at the D1 programs he gained admission. His brother the best of the four was a 1/3 scholarship recipient at Bucknell - he was a starter his junior and senior year. Certainly a good experience but there is more opportunity to get on the field at a D3. Since there isn’t much of a career in lacrosse, the opportunity to play is significant.

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Anonymous wrote:Look D# is incredibly bad Inermural athetheletes at most D1 schools would crush those at D3 schools!

Intermural beats D3? lol. A top D3 in most sports is full of kids that could have played mid/low D1 but preferred to balance sports with an education.

Not intramural, but an SEC or ACC club team in say baseball could legitimately maybe win the D3 national championships. Not to say they would…but would be in the conversation. I would imagine Lynchburg and Salisbury (winners or D3 finalists the last several years) probably get their fair share of near D1 talent.

The UNC club baseball team also has kids that could have played D1 at other schools but either didn’t want a less academic D1 or didn’t want to have a 60 hour per week job of playing baseball and the crazy travel schedule.

The UNC club team would likely beat nearly every academic D3 in the NESCAC considering I know plenty of low 80s kids recruited to those schools because yes you need the grades and scores for those schools. Emory or JHU likely a different matter.

Agree with this, my kid plays on a club team that absolutely destroyed D3 teams when they played them. The team does win club national championships. The club team practices and plays as much or more than most D3 teams (all year play)

When and where do those match ups happen? Where do you live where there are so many D3 schools available for this?

There are athletes who pick D3 schools as they do not want to practice and play all year round.

I know it's hard for some of you to imagine that not everyone has the same goals as you do or that you do for your children.

This is not the experience of D3 athletes I know in multiple sports. They do in fact train/practice all year round, though perhaps not in the same number of hours as a D1 player.

Injuries can be career-ending as much as a teen has a career as an amateur. Good friends' DS was an outstanding soccer player - tall, built, fast, and quick thinking. Invited to some ID camps when in MS for national team development. Attended development team practices and continued to play on high-level club team (won state and national championships). Also played on HS team and sustained a knee injury early junior fall. Missed college ID camps/tournaments, etc for nearly a year. Scrambled to get seen starting in summer before senior year. He went from a solid D1 prospect entering his junior year to trying to get seen by NESCAC coaches in the limited time he had left (as he had been on the sidelines for nearly 9 months). Lost out in every situation. May have been due to grades (attended one of the most rigorous schools in US with a B+/A- average) or coaches didn't want to gamble on someone who had a serious knee injury. Sh*t happens.

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Anonymous wrote:Look D# is incredibly bad Inermural athetheletes at most D1 schools would crush those at D3 schools!

Intermural beats D3? lol. A top D3 in most sports is full of kids that could have played mid/low D1 but preferred to balance sports with an education.

Not intramural, but an SEC or ACC club team in say baseball could legitimately maybe win the D3 national championships. Not to say they would…but would be in the conversation. I would imagine Lynchburg and Salisbury (winners or D3 finalists the last several years) probably get their fair share of near D1 talent.

The UNC club baseball team also has kids that could have played D1 at other schools but either didn’t want a less academic D1 or didn’t want to have a 60 hour per week job of playing baseball and the crazy travel schedule.

The UNC club team would likely beat nearly every academic D3 in the NESCAC considering I know plenty of low 80s kids recruited to those schools because yes you need the grades and scores for those schools. Emory or JHU likely a different matter.

Agree with this, my kid plays on a club team that absolutely destroyed D3 teams when they played them. The team does win club national championships. The club team practices and plays as much or more than most D3 teams (all year play)

When and where do those match ups happen? Where do you live where there are so many D3 schools available for this?

There are athletes who pick D3 schools as they do not want to practice and play all year round.

I know it's hard for some of you to imagine that not everyone has the same goals as you do or that you do for your children.