re: This is what people should be complaining about.

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men's college soccer

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I visualise the day in which soccer will supplant football as the marquee attraction on Saturday nights in Death Valley

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How does that help Davidson? They have to do the same thing, right? The best players are still going to LSU.

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the best players are going to the SEC, but a lot of depth (think Coomes, Chris Reid, Woley, Romero) has to choose between a bit of a scholarship at LSU or getting more at a place like in the Sun Belt or Southland. Davidson's an extreme outlier like Stony Brook was. Hope they enjoyed this run bc their program history suggests they won't be back soon.

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Btw, chopping up aid shuts out kids from less prosperous families. You limit those because they can't get a full ride under the current system. It's not practical to give a whole schollie to one kid as you can in hoops and football.

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will say this bc i don't know, but i bet the studs of studs are on full scholarships, especially the aces. you kind of have to give those to compete with MLB signing bonuses.

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Seems like every college should get a lump sum of schollies to do with as they please with any sport.

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Uh... no. If you think Alabama dominates now, remove the scholarship restrictions and see how they do. Remember the Bear Bryant years? That's all he did was sign everybody knowing damn good and well that 75% of them would never see the field.

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There is nothing in the rules that says it's men only

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Be realistic.

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Could you imagine if there was a group who limited music scholarships, engineering scholarships, or scholarships for other disciplines?

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Sports are extracurricular activities and are not the prime reason for the existence of colleges. Besides, most majors are limited in scholarship numbers because the classes are limited in the number of students they take.

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So every female bench player at every school is on full ride. Male athletes are often paying their own way or getting a partial scholarship.

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Yeah, you don't know what the frick you're talking about. Since we're talking baseball/ softball...softball gets 12 scholarships in D1. They basically have to allocate just like baseball does.

TBH, the first thing they need to get rid of is the dumb 25% of a scholarship rule. It hamstrings the coaches too much.

NCAA scholarship limits


For reference here are the number of scholarships by sport as determined by NCAA. Why baseball has 11.7 is a question for whoever came up with that number. When watching lacrosse it looked like they had more players out there but I don't know traveling squad numbers.