NCAA working group to recommend cutting scholarships from 85 to 80

[CrimsonChuck]

I don't know how much power this "working group" has, but this is a really dumb idea. :mad2:

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BryanDFischer Bryan Fischer
The NCAA working group WILL recommend cutting FBS football scholarships from 85 to 80, beginning in 2014.
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Hmm. This isn't an attempt to break up the SEC dynasty, is it? Nah...couldn't be.

 

[257WBY]

Trying to kill the goose that laid the golden egg. We have enough competitive cheer and equestrian.

 

[Harmost]

Beyond dumb.

 

[BamaGoose]

Well it is like all corporations.. Bring in the big bucks while cutting folks in the future. See the huge tv contracts the ncaa is getting in basketball and football.

 

[TideEngineer08]

Yet they want MORE games with a playoff. They say they are there to help protect the student athlete, yet we have this. Also, this will mean 5 potential people for every school will not get an opportunity for a free education that they otherwise would have gotten.

 

[CapstoneTider]

Call the NAACP, they'll get it resolved. That's 4 less minority scholarships per team which comes to a thousand of more?

It's just ridiculous how reactionary everyone is these days.

 

[pluckngrit]

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

 

[crimsonkelly]

This is designed to send players to other schools. Make it "more of a level playing field" type move. If Alabama can't give a player a scholarship, nor can AU or UGA or etc, he might can go to UAB, Stamford, Troy, etc. Gives them better players over a few years, etc...or they go to another school, say Memphis, and their program gets "better". Bottom line is the Memphis' of the world don't care about football as they give little to the program....

More or less taking from the haves and trying to give to the have nots. Anyone heard of this philosophy before?

 

[crimsonkelly]

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

Whose school has HOPE...Me living in Ga, this doesn't surprise me at all....

 

[mrusso]

The net result is roughly 600 less scholarships (120 D1 schools X 5 Scholly's) per year for kids across the nation. Way to go NCAA!

 

[CrimsonChuck]

The net result is roughly 600 less scholarships (120 D1 schools X 5 Scholly's) per year for kids across the nation. Way to go NCAA!

And to quote the NCAA commercial, "most of them will be going pro in something other than sports." The 600 that are cut won't be the ones that would be playing in the NFL. It will be the ones that legitimately would be depending a college degree to earn a living, and probably would not have had any way to pay for college otherwise.

This is hypocrisy at its finest. But have we come to expect anything less from the NCAA?

 

[AlistarWills]

The net result is roughly 600 less scholarships (120 D1 schools X 5 Scholly's) per year for kids across the nation. Way to go NCAA!

This! And as a poster said previously, there are 600 more kids, mostly minorities that won't get a college scholarship. This will hit the kids that are barely getting scholarships to the lowest division offering them. It may spread the wealth away from the bigger D1 schools, but in the end, it's the fringe players that are getting hurt.

 

[day-day]

Double the number of folks not getting scholarships since this will "allow" a drop of equivalent scholarships in women's sports needed to meet Title IX.

 

[RammerJammer14]

This is the stupidest, most shortsighted idea I have heard of in a while. Really NCAA? I didn't see this coming...

 

[cmmiller711]

This! And as a poster said previously, there are 600 more kids, mostly minorities that won't get a college scholarship. This will hit the kids that are barely getting scholarships to the lowest division offering them. It may spread the wealth away from the bigger D1 schools, but in the end, it's the fringe players that are getting hurt.

THIS!!! these people are forgetting the point of college athletics! the point is to provide kids who otherwise would have no means to better themselves with an education. There would be 600 less kids a year who miss their shot at a college education.

 

[SimplyTide]

How is this a good thing for student athletes? What is the goal of the NCAA?

 

[AlistarWills]

How is this a good thing for student athletes? What is the goal of the NCAA?

Socialistic rule over college athletics.

 

[BamaGoose]

How is this a good thing for student athletes? What is the goal of the NCAA?

Make $$$$$$.

 

[JIB]

5 less scholarships would be ~600 less in Div 1-A (other divisions have different scholarship limits).

For the SEC it would equate to 70 less scholarships for the league - or approximately one less team worth of players. So assuming it effects everyone equally, it would be like taking the talent off of Auburn (a mid-level SEC team) and spreading it out to other teams.

 

[Dallas4Bama]

No surprise its being lead by UGA. Surely the fact that the state has the hope scholarship will be brought to light. Talk about an unfair advantage, and another reason that Richt really sucks as a coach. Can you imagine CNS in a position where the hope scholarship could be given to those who qualified for it academically and they walk on, then the rest were used for those out of state or that otherwise didn't qualify for the hope?