Athlete recruitment...

sandiego4866
Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:21:05 +0000

Title IX, which has led every university to devote athletic resources to women in a proportion equal to their enrollment upends some of the common sense logic I’m reading here.

To the point being debated here, Stanford, in the sport I’m familiar with, has many scholarships available (twelve full for a roster of about twenty) The only IVY they compete with when recruiting national level athletes is Princeton.

Princeton, like some of their rich IVY cohorts (Harvard, Yale) only gives need based scholarships. If a recruit’s parents income is high ($120-$150K yr) they get little or
nothing from Princeton yet at Stanford can receive $100K+ over four years.

Having recently gone through the recruiting process with a child, I found it very fluid, with moving parts that included coaches coming and going, budgets changing, athletes perceived value fluctuating, and a musical chairs of recruitment slots based on commitments by other athletic recruits.

In the end, the advice given by my daughters HS coach was right. This is a business. So treat it like one.