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Post by volleyballer4life on Aug 3, 2015 16:45:52 GMT -5
It's similar to a car dealership sticker price (Student A will pay) vs. "Let me talk to my manager" (Student B). Well, except "let me talk to my manager" is actually a tactic used to increase the sales price, not decrease it. The salesman is NOT fighting on your side, you know, despite everything he does to make you feel like he is. Maybe we're talking about different phases - I'm referring to when they are at their "lowest" price, until you're about to walk out of the dealership and they're going to see if they can pull any more strings. They can always go lower, and most of the time schools can offer more money given a student's credentials.
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Post by aztecbuff on Aug 3, 2015 18:30:17 GMT -5
Not directly related to this thread, so apologize in advance, but just one correction to the above- ALL scholarship athletes in ALL sports are receiving the stipends, at least at the "P5" conference schools (and any other schools who've elected to pay the stipends), not just football and basketball players. From an article that includes discussing the U. of Colorado's implementation of the stipends (http://www.denverpost.com/colleges/ci_27990036/colorado-prepared-cost-attendance-stipends-begin-aug-1)- " In January the five power conferences approved by a vote of 79-1 a measure to offer scholarships that cover more than tuition, books, and room and board. The lone school extending the dissenting vote was not revealed. The COA allowance will be added to the monthly stipends provided to scholarship athletes for tuition, books, and room and board. Although the CU figures haven't been finalized, athletic director Rick George said the stipend for athletes on full scholarship at the school will range from $2,600 to $3,200 annually. That works out to an additional payment of more than $200 per month for those on a full scholarship in all men's and women's sports. Athletes on partial scholarships (commonplace for sports other than football and men's and women's basketball) will receive a percentage of the COA stipend coinciding with the level of their partial scholarship. The COA stipend goes into effect Aug. 1 for the Atlantic Coast, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and Southeastern conferences that received autonomous authority from the NCAA last August and now can vote on rules or issues that may not be adopted by other leagues. " This is a correct, thanks for sharing. Important to note the quote "Athletes on partial scholarships (commonplace for sports other than football and basketball)...." Also to note that not everyone is getting the additional allowance yet. Most schools have announced a plan to implement the stipend to a couple of sports each year over the next decade. Of course they will start with football and/or basketball the first year. Definitely not an expert on this, but per a quick google search, and finding this article (http://www.perspectiveonathletics.com/stipends-title-ix-debated-at-ncaa-forum/ ), it sounds to me like the stipends are under Title IX, so if, for example, the 85 max allowed football team members of a college under scholarship receive stipends, at least that many female scholarship athletes also have to receive equivalent stipends. And from the article I linked to in my earlier post, ALL CU scholarship athletes will be receiving stipends in proportion to their scholarship level (which in volleyball is of course all full-ride at CU) starting this fall (actually August 1). (And, with its recent football troubles leading to pretty low attendance in that sport, I assume CU probably has one of the smaller budgets among the P5 schools.) Also, I'm wondering if there are any reports/ lists out there on which other (non P5) schools are going to start paying stipends. I know, locally for me, that Colorado State (CSU), definitely not in ANY way an attendance power in the traditional "revenue" sports of football or men's basketball, pretty soon after the P5 vote on stipends, announced they also would be offering stipends starting immediately this fall for all their scholarship athletes ( www.csurams.com/genrel/051315aaa.html ). I wonder, Is this common among the "mid-major" conferences? (If so, that should at least keep them as competitive with the P5 schools as they are now.)
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