NCAA Forces College Athletes to Pay

Athletic Recruits
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<p>NCPA is the National College Players Association</p>

<p>[Study</a> Shows Full Scholarships Leave Athletes With Up to $55,000 In Expenses](<a href=“http://www.ncpanow.org/releases_advisories?id=0012]Study”>http://www.ncpanow.org/releases_advisories?id=0012)</p>

<p>“The NCAA and its schools have been pretending to fully support student-athletes’ pursuit for a college degree. They have misled high school recruits, their parents, college athletes, lawmakers, and the general public. The NCPA is calling upon the NCAA and these schools to use a portion of post-season football and basketball revenues to finally make good on a promise that they have been breaking for decades. A full scholarship should cover the full cost of attendance.”</p>

<p>The NCPA is not only fighting to increase scholarships, it is on a mission to eliminate the deceptive recruiting practices that are rampant across the nation. It made considerable progress toward this goal when California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the NCPA-sponsored “Student-Athletes’ Right to Know Act” (Assembly Bill 2079), which requires all California schools to disclose their scholarship shortfalls and other important policies to high school recruits. The NCPA has plans to enact this bill in other states.</p>

<p>As a service to high school recruits, their parents, and college athletes, the NCPA made the scholarship shortfalls results available on its web site. The study compares/ranks scholarship shortfalls among Division I colleges, by teams within BCS conferences, and by BCS football coaches’ salaries. " </p>

<p>Study results are available at [Home</a> | National College Players Association](<a href=“http://www.ncpanow.org%5DHome”>http://www.ncpanow.org)</p>

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<p>The NCAA defines a full scholarship or full grant-in-aid as “financial aid that consists of tuition and fees, room and board, and required course-related books”. These are the basic costs in the Cost of Attendance that are the same for every student. Additional costs included in the COA are Transportation and Personal Expense, which are obviously different for every student. How exactly is the NCAA supposed to regulate personal expenses and transportation costs? This is gonna get interesting!</p>

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<p>Another question to ask is: Is the full scholarship at the In State or OOS COA? There is a huge difference in these two numbers.</p>