Anonymous wrote:Our child was one of seven freshman recruits. By graduation all that remained was our child and one other recruit.

I guess that I would not be real surprised if it happens some places. After all, going to Cal Baptist or Abilene Christian to paly a sport is kinda meaningless.

Anonymous wrote:ED1 with coach support
D3
Probably only institutional need based aid but will cover enough of TCOA at top LAC so we are all in.
DC plans to play for 4 years but is planning for an intense academic track so we will see.

We are very excited about the school fit and academics and never gave D1 a second thought.

Ditto.

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Anonymous wrote:If D1 doesn’t provide full scholarship and is dependent on performance, what is the point of pursuing D1? I don’t get it.

They couldn’t get in on their own intelligence/academic performance/scores so it was a way for them to get into the school. Without the sport, they would have been rejected.

that is not necessarily true but athletes on my daughters team either couldn't keep up with the expectations, got tired of the 6 day a week practices, got tired of the constant commitments to the sport, were just tired, wanted to be a "normal college student," etc... P4 D1 sport is a full time job.

All of this plus sick of injuries, transfers, etc . .

ED1 with coach support
D3
Probably only institutional need based aid but will cover enough of TCOA at top LAC so we are all in.
DC plans to play for 4 years but is planning for an intense academic track so we will see.

We are very excited about the school fit and academics and never gave D1 a second thought.

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Anonymous wrote:If D1 doesn’t provide full scholarship and is dependent on performance, what is the point of pursuing D1? I don’t get it.

They couldn’t get in on their own intelligence/academic performance/scores so it was a way for them to get into the school. Without the sport, they would have been rejected.

that is not necessarily true but athletes on my daughters team either couldn't keep up with the expectations, got tired of the 6 day a week practices, got tired of the constant commitments to the sport, were just tired, wanted to be a "normal college student," etc... P4 D1 sport is a full time job.

Anonymous wrote:If D1 doesn’t provide full scholarship and is dependent on performance, what is the point of pursuing D1? I don’t get it.

They couldn’t get in on their own intelligence/academic performance/scores so it was a way for them to get into the school. Without the sport, they would have been rejected.

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Anonymous wrote:DC getting 50% athletic scholarship guaranteed for 4 years - yes it is guaranteed, unless kid quits or breaks rules and thrown off team. We are surprised DC received that much for a secondary sport at a mid major. Strong academic school - very very happy

Understand that while legally this may be true...if a coach sours on your kid, they will make your kid's life a living hell to try get that scholarship money returned to them so they can use on it a better player. Literally, the coach will treat your kid so poorly that no normal person would ever remain on the team...the coach will do everything they can to ruin the sport and college for your kid.

Make sure you are going into this eyes wide open.

you have issues

Dp and disagree. Needed dose of realism, very few recruited athletes manage to stay on the team all four years.

There is turnover but as a former recruited athlete and the parent of recruited athletes I can say with certainty that this statement is complete nonsense.

Maybe it’s baseball, but I know three different baseball players that were dropped by the coach in the Fall. All were coerced into giving up their scholarship for the next semester with the coach telling them that they would support them in the transfer portal if they did so, but would make their lives a living hell if they didn’t and ensure they never played D1 baseball again.

This was just to get the $$$s back for the Spring semester…not for multiple years as the scholarships were yearly.

I assume all the revenue sports are far more cutthroat this way.

Our child was one of seven freshman recruits. By graduation all that remained was our child and one other recruit.

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Anonymous wrote:DC getting 50% athletic scholarship guaranteed for 4 years - yes it is guaranteed, unless kid quits or breaks rules and thrown off team. We are surprised DC received that much for a secondary sport at a mid major. Strong academic school - very very happy

Understand that while legally this may be true...if a coach sours on your kid, they will make your kid's life a living hell to try get that scholarship money returned to them so they can use on it a better player. Literally, the coach will treat your kid so poorly that no normal person would ever remain on the team...the coach will do everything they can to ruin the sport and college for your kid.

Make sure you are going into this eyes wide open.

you have issues

Dp and disagree. Needed dose of realism, very few recruited athletes manage to stay on the team all four years.

There is turnover but as a former recruited athlete and the parent of recruited athletes I can say with certainty that this statement is complete nonsense.

Fine. Point out a team with zero attrition.

This statement "very few recruited athletes manage to stay on the team all four years" is nonsense. Attrition on the high academic D3 team that my oldest plays on is about one kid per year. On the other ones' Ivy team it's higher but the roster is larger, 2-3 kids per year.

On my P4 D1 Lax team years ago it was less than 10%. It's higher now especially for P4 sports because of transfers and the portal but it's nothing like you are implying.

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Anonymous wrote:DC getting 50% athletic scholarship guaranteed for 4 years - yes it is guaranteed, unless kid quits or breaks rules and thrown off team. We are surprised DC received that much for a secondary sport at a mid major. Strong academic school - very very happy

Understand that while legally this may be true...if a coach sours on your kid, they will make your kid's life a living hell to try get that scholarship money returned to them so they can use on it a better player. Literally, the coach will treat your kid so poorly that no normal person would ever remain on the team...the coach will do everything they can to ruin the sport and college for your kid.

Make sure you are going into this eyes wide open.

you have issues

Dp and disagree. Needed dose of realism, very few recruited athletes manage to stay on the team all four years.

There is turnover but as a former recruited athlete and the parent of recruited athletes I can say with certainty that this statement is complete nonsense.

Fine. Point out a team with zero attrition.

give it a rest - no need to throw shade at the college athlete experience - attrition likely mirrors the drop rate for any club or group in college

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Anonymous wrote:DC getting 50% athletic scholarship guaranteed for 4 years - yes it is guaranteed, unless kid quits or breaks rules and thrown off team. We are surprised DC received that much for a secondary sport at a mid major. Strong academic school - very very happy

Understand that while legally this may be true...if a coach sours on your kid, they will make your kid's life a living hell to try get that scholarship money returned to them so they can use on it a better player. Literally, the coach will treat your kid so poorly that no normal person would ever remain on the team...the coach will do everything they can to ruin the sport and college for your kid.

Make sure you are going into this eyes wide open.

you have issues

Dp and disagree. Needed dose of realism, very few recruited athletes manage to stay on the team all four years.

There is turnover but as a former recruited athlete and the parent of recruited athletes I can say with certainty that this statement is complete nonsense.

Fine. Point out a team with zero attrition.

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Anonymous wrote:DC getting 50% athletic scholarship guaranteed for 4 years - yes it is guaranteed, unless kid quits or breaks rules and thrown off team. We are surprised DC received that much for a secondary sport at a mid major. Strong academic school - very very happy

Understand that while legally this may be true...if a coach sours on your kid, they will make your kid's life a living hell to try get that scholarship money returned to them so they can use on it a better player. Literally, the coach will treat your kid so poorly that no normal person would ever remain on the team...the coach will do everything they can to ruin the sport and college for your kid.

Make sure you are going into this eyes wide open.

you have issues

Dp and disagree. Needed dose of realism, very few recruited athletes manage to stay on the team all four years.

There is turnover but as a former recruited athlete and the parent of recruited athletes I can say with certainty that this statement is complete nonsense.

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Anonymous wrote:DC getting 50% athletic scholarship guaranteed for 4 years - yes it is guaranteed, unless kid quits or breaks rules and thrown off team. We are surprised DC received that much for a secondary sport at a mid major. Strong academic school - very very happy

Understand that while legally this may be true...if a coach sours on your kid, they will make your kid's life a living hell to try get that scholarship money returned to them so they can use on it a better player. Literally, the coach will treat your kid so poorly that no normal person would ever remain on the team...the coach will do everything they can to ruin the sport and college for your kid.

Make sure you are going into this eyes wide open.

you have issues

Dp and disagree. Needed dose of realism, very few recruited athletes manage to stay on the team all four years.

Anonymous wrote:If D1 doesn’t provide full scholarship and is dependent on performance, what is the point of pursuing D1? I don’t get it.

Competing against the best athletes, not glorified club soccer.

Anonymous wrote:My kid just got a Chess Boxing Scholarship

Let me guess, you just watched 60 Minutes.