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Post by vballmom on Jan 17, 2003 17:49:33 GMT -5
In the Men's Volleyball program's, the NCAA is the governing body for D-I, II, and III. They limit the scholarships to 4.5 for D-I, and D-II, so I can see where people might be concerned that the few scholarships there are are going to foreign players. They are student athletes, after all, and American schools should give a preference to American athletes. That being said, Puerto Rico is a US Territory and they have rights here that other "foreigners" do not.
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Post by Psychopotamus on Jan 19, 2003 3:37:56 GMT -5
I could be wrong, but I though in any sport you can technically be a professional (ie earn money playing) as long as you don't exceed a certain limit per year.
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Post by vballmom on Jan 20, 2003 10:42:45 GMT -5
This is from the NCAA website:
Don't lose your college eligibility by becoming a professional. You are a "professional" if you:
Are paid (in any form) or accept the promise of pay for playing in an athletics contest;
Sign a contract or verbally commit with an agent or a professional sports organization;
Ask that your name be placed on a draft list [Note: In basketball, once you become a student-athlete at an NCAA school, you may enter a professional league's draft one time without jeopardizing your eligibility provided you are not drafted by any team in that league and you declare your intention in writing to return to college within 30 days after the draft];
Use your athletics skill for pay in any form (for example, TV commercials, demonstrations);
Play on a professional athletics team; or
Participate on an amateur sports team and receive any salary, incentive payment, award, gratuity, educational expenses or expense allowances (other than playing apparel, equipment and actual and necessary travel, and room and board expenses).
Before enrolling in college, you may:
Tryout (practice with but not participate against outside competition) with a professional sports team at your expense;
Receive actual and necessary expenses from any professional sports organizations for one visit per professional organization not in excess of 48 hours; and
Receive a fee for teaching a lesson in a particular sport.
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Post by Psychopotamus on Jan 21, 2003 7:10:49 GMT -5
The only reason I thought there were limits on certain occasions is because of Jason Olive at UH a couple of years ago. I remember them saying there was a limit on the ammount of money he could make modeling. It really wasn't a case of volleyball being the factor, but who exactly makes that differentiation? Also, was this a case of a grey are, where it didn't fall under a violation, but there were still limits?
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Post by vballmom on Jan 21, 2003 10:48:33 GMT -5
The only reason I would think that modeling would be a problem is if you were playing your sport in a commercial.?.?.....
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Post by Psychopotamus on Jan 21, 2003 13:41:05 GMT -5
Then there was also the Pizza Hut(?) commercial that people thought Nohea Tano was in. It wasn't, but some of the UH volleyball players could definately make some money doing that type of thing, considering how recognizable they are here. It would be easy to say they were chosen strictly for their looks, which is why I'm wondering who exactly makes that descision.
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Post by quikset on Jan 21, 2003 17:02:08 GMT -5
The only reason I thought there were limits on certain occasions is because of Jason Olive at UH a couple of years ago. I remember them saying there was a limit on the ammount of money he could make modeling. It really wasn't a case of volleyball being the factor, but who exactly makes that differentiation? Also, was this a case of a grey are, where it didn't fall under a violation, but there were still limits? Jason Olive gave up his volleyball scholarship his last two years at UH because of his modeling contracts. It was because of this that Mike Wilton was able to come up with the scholarship money to recruit Yuval Katz to play for UH in '95-'96. |
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