What is the Logic Behind Baseball Scholarship Rules

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In baseball coaches are allowed a little over 11.5 scholarships per team for a D1 school and 9 for a D2 school.

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It just seems we are having to divide this all over the place and having to rely on academic schollys or TOPS.

I dont understand still why we can't give a certain amount of players in a signing class each year a full ride

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There is no Logic Behind Baseball Scholarship Rules

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Fixed it for you.

If there's a reason why they continue to get shafted, I haven't figured it out. It certainly doesn't improve the sport. Seems like one more reason for talented players to go straight to pro baseball.

one of the problems is that baseball is already a money pit for most schools so giving out 35 schollys is just not feasible.

this rule supposedly levels the playing field (but it just screws private schools harder than cheap schools)

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You can thank Title IX

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You think? I thought that it was up to the school to decide how to comply with Title IX. For example, a school adds women's gymnastics and soccer but not men's to balance out schollies from football. If a school adds enough women's sports to strike that balance, why would the NCAA limit their scolarships for a specific sport?

Not saying that's the case or implying that you're wrong, I'm simply posing it as a question. I honestly don't know the answer.

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one of the problems is that baseball is already a money pit for most schools so giving out 35 schollys is just not feasible.

this rule supposedly levels the playing field (but it just screws private schools harder than cheap schools)

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Ok but how is this causing Unversity X to lose money. I mean Is University x losing money because one or two more kids are added to the Poly Sci class or Marketing 101.

I am supposing that all these kids are covered under some health plan scholarship or not. So in the end the University is just losing money on room and board and food. Which seems in the big scheme of things pretty small. In the end whether they are on scholarship are not you got to pay for their travel. Whether they are on scholarship or not you have to pay for their expenses on the road.

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You can thank Title IX.

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X10- it is more cost efficient to cut men's programs then to pump money into women's sports.

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lets say Private School U adds 26 scholarships from their D2 9. Their tuition is 33,000 a year.

the school just gave up $858,000 per year, or 3.5 million dollars over the 4 years of eligibility of the student athletes.

Private school U cannot afford this and is thus forced to shut down the baseball program because they cannot compete with higher revenue programs.

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BUt how is Private School "x" really losing money by adding 35 students to the rolls at full scholarship. I mean they are adding a small number of students in the overall scheme to the academic structure.

Adding 35 baseball players in various academic areas does not mean they have to deny 35 other paying students. It seems the major expense of baseball occurs with players whether they are on scholarship or not. Like plane travel and hotels etc.

I have no idea what D2 9 is by the way. It just seems in the end they could add these guys to the rolls and besides room and board their is no real negative income cost to the University.

Are the swimming teams, Golf teams, tennis teams, soccer teams under similar restrictions?

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I think you need to reread my post.

Adding the scholarships would cost the school nearly a million dollars a year.

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So are they actually having to deposit funds? THis seems all like robbing Peter to pay Paul to me.