The future of college baseball

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Originally Posted by Esqueleto

Do non-scholarship players not eat at training tables now? Do they have to pay for their food?
I'm with Turbine here. Adding scholarships to current sports wouldn't cost the school very much. Adding sports and coaches would.

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I agree with Esqueleto and Turbine.

The question isn't how much it costs the university, it is how much it costs the Athletic Department. Trust me on this one, even if the is zero additional cost to the university, the Athletic Department has to pay the university for those scholarships. Every additional scholarship is a cost to the athletic department in the form of actual money one way or another. Either they cut a check to the U from theAthletic budget, or the university counts the cost as part of institutional support for athletics, and sjubtracts that amount from thee dollars they send athletics.

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Originally Posted by VObserver

The question isn't how much it costs the university, it is how much it costs the Athletic Department. Trust me on this one, even if the is zero additional cost to the university, the Athletic Department has to pay the university for those scholarships. Every additional scholarship is a cost to the athletic department in the form of actual money one way or another. Either they cut a check to the U from theAthletic budget, or the university counts the cost as part of institutional support for athletics, and sjubtracts that amount from thee dollars they send athletics.

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Its a shell game. Thats why you've never seen a report of a delay in an athletic department paying academics.

Conversely you've never read a story on how profitable athletics is to the university.

Athletics sponsoring 300-400 academic scholarships annually should generate tons of headlines but it doesn't because the money exchange isn't necessary for survival.

The last time I read a story about athletics cutting a check to a school was TAF making a donation from its surplus.

According to my information, UL Athletics cuts a check to the University every year for the cost of scholarships, or at the very least has the cost of scholarships cut from its funding from the university.

Either way, it is money that Athletics has to pay.

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Originally Posted by Esqueleto

Do non-scholarship players not eat at training tables now? Do they have to pay for their food?
I'm with Turbine here. Adding scholarships to current sports wouldn't cost the school very much. Adding sports and coaches would.

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The training table Q is an excellent question.

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Originally Posted by VObserver

According to my information, UL Athletics cuts a check to the University every year for the cost of scholarships, or at the very least has the cost of scholarships cut from its funding from the university.

Either way, it is money that Athletics has to pay.

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First thing we should have ever done was fully endow all scholarships.. but hey, what do we know..

What we must do now is prepare ourselves to pay for 300-400 scholarships rather than the 200 or so we now fund. Now is not the time to be infighting among our various sports. It is crucial that all be fightting on a united front, rather than jealously guarding our sport's short term self interest.

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Originally Posted by VObserver

What we must do now is prepare ourselves to pay for 300-400 scholarships rather than the 200 or so we now fund. Now is not the time to be infighting among our various sports. It is crucial that all be fightting on a united front, rather than jealously guarding our sport's short term self interest.

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Did you make the call to the local dealership yet??? LOL

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Originally Posted by VObserver

According to my information, UL Athletics cuts a check to the University every year for the cost of scholarships, or at the very least has the cost of scholarships cut from its funding from the university.

Either way, it is money that Athletics has to pay.

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Do you see the flaw here?

"UL Athletics cuts a check to the University every year" and all you have to go by is "According to my information."

An entity that pays the tuition for 1% of the student population should be headline news and should leave a trail of promotional bragging rights going back 50 years.

No school in the country ever mentions this supposed annual transfer of enrollment funds from athletics to academics.

Why should they? It is an obvious cost of doing business