Softball Offseason

[MarlinMan3]

Is meal ticket (or meal plan) a moot point, since athletes (even walk-ons) are on training table anyway?

[SportyCajun459]

UL offers that stuff.

Yes, they do in certain cirumstances but I can guarantee you with 100% certainty that UL didn't offer Irvin a full ride athletic scholarship to play softball like UCF purportedly did. Even with the NCAA $20.5 mill due to UL, softball's portion of that money isn't going to be very much and I bet that the majority will be used for NIL payments to players.

[Reality Check]

Is meal ticket (or meal plan) a moot point, since athletes (even walk-ons) are on training table anyway?

What?? Stop posting because you are making a fool out of yourself. All athletes don't automatically get meal tickets. Only head count sport scholarship recipients get a meal ticket included with their scholarship. Walk-ons definitely do not get a meal tickets. They have to pay for it if they want one. I would venture to say that the majority of equivalency sport scholarship recipients aren't provided with a meal ticket. Most are awarded just tuition and book assistance.

[MarlinMan3]

What?? Stop posting because you are making a fool out of yourself. All athletes don't automatically get meal tickets. Only head count sport scholarship recipients get a meal ticket included with their scholarship. Walk-ons definitely do not get a meal tickets. They have to pay for it if they want one. I would venture to say that the majority of equivalency sport scholarship recipients aren't provided with a meal ticket. Most are awarded just tuition and book assistance.

A. It was a question
B. Calm down
C. Geez.

[MarlinMan3]

When i hear meal ticket i think student union cafeteria or the conference center dorm, granted things may have changed a lot in the 30 plus years since i last ate there. But i remember the athletes eating separately back then after practice, together...at training table...not using meal plan.. sorry if i wrongly assumed they have that capability to eat at the athletic facility now..
I could see teammates wanting to continue conversations about things that happened at practice, and would harm that team comaraderie if you made the walkons go eat elsewhwere?
Simple answer would have been: "no, sorry, all athletes dont go to training table"...me: ok thanks.
However, the ncaa seems to say otherwise... "Yes, walk-ons can go to the training table, especially in major college sports, as NCAA rules now allow for training table meals for all rostered athletes, including walk-ons."

Granted i could see utilixing both, esp. The cash balance function to pick up a snack or soda between classes, nowadays those charges must add up fast

[Reality Check]

A. It was a question
B. Calm down
C. Geez.

No, you posted it as a statement of fact. And you got called out for posting about something you are clueless about. Just like most of your posts.

[MarlinMan3]

Is this better?
Are training table and meal "ticket" two different things?
Can walkons eat at training table?
Has NCAA made additional sports full counter starting this school year?

[JMV JustMyView]

Supposedly decommited so late from the cajuns that she couldn't get enrolled into UCF for the fall semester. I was told by someone that her plan is to enroll for the spring semester.

Her choice of schools strikes me as odd. She is transferring to a school that had a catcher named to a freshman All American team this past season. So she is going to be sitting behind a sophmore who she probaby won't beat out, especially if she is going to miss all of this fall. Seems to me that she would have been better off staying at UL where she had a great chance to start and have gotten plenty of playing time and at-bats. She could then transfer after this season with 3 years left to play.

As a former D1 player you know as well as I know if they wanted her enrolled in the fall as an athlete they would have found a way. You also know that every school has different admission standards.