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re: Now that players are getting paid for NIL should they have to pay for tuition ?
Posted on 7/1/21 at 1:48 pm to RRBengal
Posted on 7/1/21 at 1:48 pm to RRBengal
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All I’m saying is that whatever the current form is can be changed to more closely align to that of a signing bonus
The only way your idea could work is if all athletic scholarships were paid in cash to the student in advance of their services.
Scholarships are mostly cashless (beyond semester stipends) and are a barter for services. You play football for us, and you can attend the school, stay in this housing, eat from this meal plan, etc. The day the student leaves, they are no longer using the resources or providing the service. So expecting reimbursement would very much be like asking an employee to pay back income already earned.
The closest you could come is in those cases where the athlete quits the team but stays at the school. I am not sure it isn't already done this way, but in that case, you could change the rule that they can no longer attend the school unless they pay the prorated value of the education from quitting day to the day they leave the school, rather than allowing them to continue leveraging the scholarship beyond their service to the team.
It could also be seen as discriminatory to only enforce this rule on student athletes, so this would likely have to impact all scholarship students. I doubt that would go over well.
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Posted on 7/1/21 at 2:02 pm to GRTiger
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Scholarships are mostly cashless (beyond semester stipends) and are a barter for services. You play football for us, and you can attend the school, stay in this housing, eat from this meal plan, etc. The day the student leaves, they are no longer using the resources or providing the service. So expecting reimbursement would very much be like asking an employee to pay back income already earned.
They also are renewed yearly, not issued 4 years at a time.
Posted on 7/1/21 at 2:12 pm to GRTiger
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The only way your idea could work is if all athletic scholarships were paid in cash to the student in advance of their services.
I realize what I am proposing is unorthodox and would be difficult to implement however, it is not too far out there. Professional sports give signing bonuses where if a player doesn't fulfill their obligations they have to pay back a portion or all of it.
Maybe it is that we give kids the cash up front in a trust that can be drawn out of to cover school related costs and if they leave for unapproved reasons they are forced to payback the trust to make it whole. If a coach leaves while still under contract then he typically has to pay a penalty, which is generally covered by the receiving school. Maybe the answer in that the receiving school has to pay to losing school for the transferring player's tuition to date.
I don't know the answer, but what I do know is that something should change from the school's perspective. The old way of doing business will not be good for them in the long run. The pendulum always swings from one extreme to another. Before the schools / NCAA had their boot on the throat of the players at one extreme, now it's swinging towards the other direction. I'm hoping they can find a happy middle ground.
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