Keeping up with Ag. And it covers fees as well which can be even bigger than tuition in some cases. Baseball will benefit
how can you hate on this? Extremely cool move by UT and good way to use a fraction of their enormous endowment. Good on the horns (hate to say it)Cool headline. Now how many kids will actually qualify academically.
As someone who paid his own way through TCU through financial aid, there’s no hate. It was an honest question.how can you hate on this? Extremely cool move by UT and good way to use a fraction of their enormous endowment. Good on the horns (hate to say it)
As someone who paid his own way through TCU through financial aid, there’s no hate. It was an honest question.
I would love to know the real impact. How many students will benefit? Do you know?
EDIT berry noted it.
How can you "stack" athletic aid with a full scholarship?
What I mean is: Kid who qualifies for this program gets offered by Texas' baseball team, but they say "We don't have a scholarship for you". He's not allowed to play baseball? Or walk on?
I think Todd's point is (and I think he's right) it seems like this would still be a much more substantial benefit than a 1/4 or 1/3 baseball scholly, though, whether it covers food and living costs or not. If given the choice were I a top baseball player I'd probably take this every time and play as a walk-on. My loans to cover food and living arrangements would be much less than my loans to cover school and everything else.I'm guessing the tuition/fees thing doesn't include things like room & board, food. Athletic scholarship could provide those, but not in combination with this new non-athletic tuition/fee benefit, as I understand it.
Certainly a good question. As expensive as competitive baseball has become you're probably right. Another thing that would keep this from benefiting the baseball program is that the elite baseball player would not only have to come from an extremely low income family, but he'd also have to graduate in the top 5% - 6% of his class or whatever the requirement is these days. That's probably going to be an even rarer bird. Much more likely in rural communities, IMO, where $65K for a family can go much further, you still see multi-sport athlete more prevalent, and it's easier academically to graduate with a high rank in the class.The real question is, how many elite baseball players come from families who make less than $65,000 a year combined. I’m guessing it’s not all that common?