Texas state lawmakers are trying to cap athletic scholarships for international students…

People on both sides of this issue have lost their fricking mind

See my posts in the hockey threads about NCAA hockey schools giving scholarships to Canadian players. Our tax dollars go to support these colleges, they should be training American born hockey players.

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Our tax dollars go to support these colleges

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The athletic departments are typically funded by student fees and whatever revenue they bring so a school like Texas is not using “your tax dollars” for a track scholarship.

I’m okay with this. I loved (most of) the international teammates I had in college, don’t get me wrong, but we should be more focused on developing our own talent than bringing in internationals to win at all costs. Look at some universities at the d1 level of xc. Almost entirely Kenyan, a good chunk of them are 25+. If this was a professional league then yea sure go for it. American universities should prioritize taking care of American students first though.

Again… American universities should be primarily for the development of Americans. I’m not saying cut all internationals all together but the priority shouldn’t be bringing in internationals to win at all costs. Alabama is one of the worst “offenders”(I know they’re operating completely within the rules and it hast resulted in a natty so whatever) of this in the cross country/track world.

In the Olympic sports a lot of title winners aren’t your “usual suspect” power schools. NAU has won a ton of xc championships recently. NC state on the women’s side. Arizona state and cal have won the last 3 swimming titles. Denver, Quinnipec, and Umass have won the last 4 hockey titles. Writing the rule as you have it would only further increase the gulf between the haves and have nots which is dumb, imo. Everyone in d1 should have a chance to win a title (does that happen realistically? No. But still)

The bill should be you can bring in internationals but no more than x% of your scholarship money can go to internationals (I’d like to see it capped at maybe 2 fulls worth per sport but whatever makes the numbers makes sense I’m on board with).

Don't ignore it..... It's like a silver Penney.

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The athletic departments are typically funded by student fees and whatever revenue they bring so a school like Texas is not using “your tax dollars” for a track scholarship.

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Even if an athletic department doesn’t directly use tax dollars to pay for something, it exists in a tax-free and taxpayer subsidized system.

Tax dollars may not directly go to a track scholarship, but they support the ecosystem that allows that track scholarship to exist in the first place. Pretending the two are separate is like saying USAID didn’t fund transgender dance festivals because actually it just funded an NGO that subsequently funded transgender dance festivals.

Any 501(c)(3) should be viewed as an indirect use of taxpayer dollars, so its charitable exemption should be scrutinized as such. Any reduction in government revenue due to nonprofit status has to be picked up by taxpayers either in the form of higher taxes or deficit-induced inflation.

I always found it interesting 75% of the All Americans when I played tennis were in fact not American

I’m mixed on this. If you want the scholarship be better

And the truth is anyone with any real potential to be pro that is American is already easily getting a scholarship in these sports. The only person this will help is the good not great American players

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Sports most affected will be non revenue sports like tennis, track, swimming, and soccer

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If Texas was pulling 6’4 OTs from Australia or WR who could run a 4.2 from Jamaica or Kenya the would be increasing money to international students.

Mostly, it’s just some old fashioned racism.