They don’t have to provide full rides, but it will be interesting to see how the conferences handle and which sports are cut. If school A offers full rides for their athletes, School B in the same conference will be at a huge disadvantage.
I don’t think you can underestimate the level of confusion and chaos that these new increased scholarship limits are going to create for families, who are going to look at these numbers, assume the 1-1 relationships between roster spots and scholarships means the sports are fully funded, and be stunned when their athlete isn’t offered a scholarship. I don’t blame NCSA for not explaining this - it’s confusing and they can’t know what the future is going to bring - but it is going to be a huge mess.
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Why do you dislike NCSA?
Many agree that its a bit of a scam/money play. 90% of recruiting is on the athlete. There are a couple of books and FB groups that offer all the guidance you may need at no cost at all.
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Hard sell for limited value.
Most college coaches that I know aren’t interested in emails from a platform like NCSA. NCSA is owned by IMG which in turn is owned by a HK based PE firm. Formerly IMG was owned by Endeavor holdings, the same folks who own UFC.
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The article lists women’s rowing with respect to increase of scholarships, but no mention whatsoever regarding men’s rowing.
What am I missing ?
Men’s rowing is not an NCAA sport.
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People think all the athletes are going to get paid on top of a full boat scholarship, too.
Where are they getting the current scholarship count for cross country? Isn’t cross country and track combined and at the numbers they have posted for track?
Cross country needs a separate number for those schools that offer cross country and not track. For example, Northwestern only has women’s cross country, although the women do compete in some distance events during the track season. No cross country or track for men there.
At schools that have to adhere to these caps, there likely will be distance runners that are on the XC roster but not track.
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That makes sense, I hadn’t thought of programs with just XC and no track. Since there was no appeal to my son, I never knew (or didn’t think about) they had different scholarship limits.
The table is misleading because the current scholarship count can’t be added, but the proposed numbers can, so its sort of apples to oranges.
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Many schools are committing to giving the money they will get for the NIL settlement to the students (more scholarships) so some sports that didn’t have enough will have more.
Some schools do this now and don’t worry about other schools fully funding a sport.
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My son’s school moved up from FCS to a G5 FBS conference. The interesting thing is that they already had an athletic budget that immediately made them the largest in their G5 conference. It will be interesting to see how this little fish plays the new system in that big pond. Maybe they go big and try to make a statement.
Breaking news that the SEC is planning to set roster limits for Men’s Cross Country at 10 and Men’s Track and Field at 35. Women’s teams will be the 17 and 45 numbers that is proposed by the NCAA. Bad news for the sport on the men’s side.
This is only the beginning. Non revenue sports are going to suffer big time.
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It’s pretty devastating. On the swimming side the expectation is that limits will not be “quite” as severe with other conferences since they carry more sports and in theory have more wiggle room. I’m guessing it will be the same with T&F but whomever can’t see how bad this is for men’s sports is fooling themselves.
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If something seems extremely wrong (athletes at a university making more than faculty, president, etc.), then it should be corrected. Something this egregious that dismantles the entire structure of the student-athlete in the United States should have a moratorium placed, and things kept pre-House until a more reasonable settlement can be reached.
Congress would have to step-in.
The lawyers wanna get paid, as do the plaintiffs.
I can’t imagine the NIL genie is going back in the bottle.