[NU Sports] Pay to Play

[Beamsley, Jeff]

Dennis,
 
Your politics are showing again.  You might want to think about zipping that up before something even more embarassing pops out.
 
Here are the facts based on a study last year.
 
http://www.ncpanow.org/research?id=0018 <http://www.ncpanow.org/research?id=0018> 
 
Full athletic scholarships DO NOT cover all education-related expenses.  The average annual estimated shortfall is $2951.  The annual shortfall at NU is $2132.  The annual shortfall at OSU is $4572 which is interesting since the annual tuition at OSU is only $11K.
 
This does not include the cost of other living expenses also not covered by scholarship.   
 
Those of us who have had kids in college recently can attest that it is expensive to live away from home.  Even the best and brightest kids find living on a budget challenging.  Some parents become an ATM.  Some tire of that and insist that their kids find work to cover their additional expenses.
 
The problem, as others have pointed out, is that because of NCAA rules, scholarship athletes don't have the option of working. As Roy pointed out, those rules were put in place to curb the abuses of boosters.
 
If anyone has known a Div I student-athlete, you learn that it is a full-time job in addition to school.  During their sports season, many athletes take a lighter academic schedule to devote more time to practice and play.  During the off season, they focus more on academics including often summer school but still are practicing or training every day.  Between this schedule and eligibility rules, many football players end up staying in school five years.  If you are going to OSU that means that you've got to come up with an additional $23K.  Where is that money going to come from if you can't work and your family can't afford it?  
 
I agree that there is risk to the proposal that the BT has floated, but the reaction of blaming the victim for the crime here is also clearly out of line.  
 
Jeff
 

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From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com on behalf of Dennis W. Brandt
Sent: Fri 5/20/2011 10:32 PM
To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Pay to Play




  ----- Original Message -----
  From: MHRJGScott at aol.com
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  Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 7:46 PM
  Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Pay to Play



  BAD IDEA!  REALLY BAD!  A full scholarship for four, maybe five years, a
  special diet, availability of tutors, isn't enough?

  No not when these kids generate a billion $ and their asst. kicking coach is getting $400,000 per. At least 10 asst coaches in the sec$ are making $800,000 each. Please, give the kids $5,000 so they don't have to steal computers and sell rings.


  Nobody gave me money at NU, and I didn't steal computers and sell rings - or whatever was equivalent in the '60s.  Payment to generate morality.  What a typical wrong-headed liberal idea and one that has never worked.
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