a full ride?

I hear of players getting what is referred to as "full rides" (scholarships).
In non-revenue Div. 1 sports like baseball & softball, I thought that they are not fully funded with scholarships, like baseball has about 13 or 14(?) full scholarships, so they normally will share the scholarships among many players (more than the 13 or 14). So some players may get 3/4 of a scholarship, & others may get 1/2, others 1/4 & so on.
Don't know about softball.

So do some players really get "full rides"?

 

.......amazing what academic money can do for our student/athletes.

 

Yes....it does happen on occassion, but it's very rare. NCAA D1 schools are alotted 11.7 baseball scolarships. In most cases they look to see how much academic money they can offer a player first and then at the "baseball' money. Most "full rides" are a blending of academic and athletic scolarships, but it's more often full academic scolarships than athletic scolarships. If they are able to get academic scolarships for as many players as possible they then have a little more athletic money to offer those players that don't qualify for academic money. Another thing to consider is that not all schools fully fund their baseball programs for one reason or another. Although the NCAA allows 11.7, it's up to the school as to how many less they want to fund. I think the alotment for DII is about 9, but I don't know about softball either. With Title 9 written like it is, a good guess would be that softball is pretty much like baseball.

NC and Prepster are the experts on this subject maybe they'll expound on the subject or correct me if I'm wrong.

 

rc, you nailed the situation.

I'll give you an A+ for today.

obtw: Are you headed down to Charleston this week???? I think I'll be in town (finally) late thursday.

 

Excellent, as always, RC!!

The only thing I might add is that, in Division I, there are some strict guidelines which limit a school's ability to "blend" academic with athletic funds. Essentially, there are two tests: (1) the player must comply with any one of four criteria in high school and (2) the granting of the academic aid must conform with that which any non-athlete would receive. This second stipulation is often the limiting factor.

Here is a link to the NCAA regulation from the High School Baseball Web:
http://hsbaseballweb.com/scholarship_blending.htm

A final anecdote on this topic: Several years ago, while watching a game from the College World Series, the TV commentator remarked that only 2 of the 200 players present were attending college on a full ATHLETIC scholarship. I have no idea how he was in a position to know that; but, now that I know what I do about the way baseball monies are divided, I don't question his veracity.

Best of luck to everyone in post-season play!

 

Yep.....we're leaving about 4:30 am Wednesday morning. We got lucky and get to play at 10:00am(not) that morning. I have some real doubts if we'll still be there by late Thursday though. Good luck to you guys and especially to NC junior.

 

I think many people would be surprised that in the states like Georgia and South Carolina, how many players on those teams are not on any athletic scholarships.

I wonder with the new NC education lottery, if the same will hold true here.

 

Braves you hit the nail on the head concerning in State Kids at some of the State Schools that have College funding through lotteries. Not sure if North Carolina's will head that way. Right now the monies were implied and intented by some to go to education (Elementary - through High School) is my understanding, but it's not mandated that way apparently. This became obvious after the ruckus in Raleigh last week popped up, caused by Harry Jones the Mecklenburg County manager proposing a tax cut next year funded by the new lottery dollars.