re: Anyone who follows Tulane baseball...

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I know a baseball player offered one of the legislative scholarships. Forgive me if I have the name incorrect. In other words it's offered by one of the state elected officials. It covers tuition. That still leaves 16-17 K a year to attend Tulane.

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In the past, they've given those to the New Orleans area kids, who could live at home. The 11.7 can then be spread around to out-of-state kids. As a result, they were able to offer more money to their "superstar" recruits as well.

When there was the big "expose'" on the legislative scholarship, a new system was put in place where every "award" has to go before a board. This essentially eliminated the preferential treatment that certain Tulane-baseball-friendly politicians used to fill the Tulane roster. Rick Jones (and Brockhoff before him) actually recruited using the Legislative Scholarship.