[NCAA] Minimum Scholarship Amount Reduced
Minimum Scholarship Amount Reduced
Posted Aug. 10, 2007 5:08 pm by Aaron Fitt
Filed under: Around The Nation
The NCAA Division I Board of Directors did not delay the implementation of a
minimum scholarship threshold for college baseball as the sport’s academic
enhancement group proposed, but it did amend the controversial legislation at
its Thursday meeting.
Schools will now be required to offer at least a 25 percent aid package to
all scholarship players, rather than the 33 percent that was approved in
April. In order to make the change more palatable to underfunded schools that
had protested the change, programs that have less than 11.7 scholarships at
their disposal will be able to use countable institutional aid to get to 25
percent. This means underfunded programs will be able to stretch their funds
a little farther than they otherwise would have by giving out more need-based
aid.
“If you had five scholarships and you had to give 33 percent to each kid,
theoretically you could only have 15 kids on scholarship,” said LSU coach
Paul Mainieri, a member of the working group that will continue to study this
issue in the next year. “Now, with 25 percent, you can have 20 kids, and you
can stretch it further with the institutional aid.”
The lower scholarship threshold also gives fully funded schools a little more
wiggle room in case something unexpected happens with their rosters.
“This gives you more flexibility–not a lot, it’s still going to be very
restrictive, much more than we’re used to doing, but this is the way the
rule is, so we’re just going to have to abide by it,” Mainieri said.
Also Thursday, the NCAA opted not to reconsider the ban on text messaging it
passed in April. That ban significantly changes the way coaches can contact
players–they’ll have to return to relying on emails and weekly phone calls.
“I think (text messaging) was helpful for so many more reasons than simply
another contact with a recruit–whether it was for pitching rotations,
directions to a field, or scheduling changes, or even just getting kids to
call you in a timely manner, the text messaging was a really helpful tool,”
Michigan assistant coach Bob Keller said. “With only one phone call per
week, sometimes it can be pretty difficult to establish a relationship with
some of the players you’re trying to recruit. Yeah, it might seem pretty
inconsequential to shoot somebody a couple sentences on a cell phone text
message, but over time, I’ve seen it help me learn a little more about these
players, learn more about my recruits, build some rapport and a relationship
with some of these kids.”
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