NCAA working group to recommend cutting scholarships from 85 to 80

[BAMAFAN IN NY]

If they want to help the "student athlete" then stop taking away their opportunities to attend their school of choice


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[KrAzY3]

The other aspect is the simple fact that a scholarship to an SEC school is more valuable in many ways, than, for instance the Sun Belt. They should raise the scholarship limit and while yes, some schools would drop out this would be countered by the fact that instead of getting a scholarship to South Alabama, an athlete might be getting a scholarship to Alabama.

 

[CapstoneTider]

This will hurt teams that recruit more minorities than those that don't, the SEC for example, which is the intent imo.........to weaken the SEC.

Statistically, a heavily recruited black has a higher chance of not qualifying that a white recruit. If they limit the over-signing as a buffer against this, then teams that recruit the most black athletes will end up on the short end more than the rest.

The dominance of the SEC has reached critical mass now that two teams played in the championship. The internet has empowered a lot of idiots, media types included, and the result is poorly thought out reactionary measures when the web gets buzzing about something. It's really and mob mentality and a reason for things like the electoral college.

Most anyone that's honest and educated in football knows that the best two teams played in the championship game, yet the mob consensus seems to disagree and believe a conspiracy or plain stupidity has the SEC teams ranked too highly at the beginning of the season. So all the power ratings are false. A good portion of these idiots have no idea that Alabama and LSU both averaged over 30 points a game in the season and believe the low scoring affair was due to the SEC's poor offenses as compared to those like Oklahoma State who was beat by the equivalent of a Kentucky.

SEC dominance has reached critical mass, and the loud voice of the mob and reactionary times due to fear from this voice(for the time being) will create reactionary poorly thought out rules that 99% of the time will be designed to bring the SEC down.

Another avenue, mentioned by the mediocre John Cooper; now that USC and Ohio State's probation have been settled, look for the NCAA to come sniffing around the SEC and nailing a team in the very near future. It could very well be Auburn since they seem to be easy pray these days.

An Alabama championship always seems to come with a price for some reason.

 

[Black Warrior]

Even though it may affect a certain number of minority players college sports is not a social services program.

Nevertheless, a large amount of scholarship losses will impact minorities. NAACP is the perfect organization to approach the NCAA to kill this thing. If the bottom line is what's of concern, this is a sound approach.

 

[CapstoneTider]

Is there too many scholarships available in the supply and demand? The answer is no if you look at how teams like Bama have slots to give to walk-ons, so the NCAA would basically be asking for more players to play for free, especially minorities at the schools that have brought in billions. This will never see the light of day imo.

 

[JeffAtlanta]

and supposedly the person chairing this "working group" is none other than UGA's president michael adams.

This comes as no surprise as UGA is an SEC school in name only.

They have adopted the UT-Austin mentality and think that they are a Big-10 school.

UGA played with only had 72 recruited players this year and rather than firing Richt for incompetence, they believe that it is a sign of class and "doing it the right way". Somehow, planning ahead for attrition is unethical and the only righteous way to handle is to fill the roster with walkons.

 

[Matt0424]

This was voted down...can't post the link from my phone, but I saw the story...

 

[tidefan39817]

This was voted down...can't post the link from my phone, but I saw the story...

True it was struck down but it was also in response to adding the "at cost" portion to athletic scholarships.

 

[JeffAtlanta]

Let's see that 5 lost scholarships at approx 120 universities. That's 600 if my math is correct. A large number of those could/would be minorities.

Wouldn't this also result in the likely elimination of the 5 matching female scholarships being elimnated as well?

It's doubtful the 5 scholarships would be redistributed to another men's sport so the 5 female scholarships would probably be on the chopping block, so those Title IX losses you mentioned could be significant.