| To: Bill who wrote (79339) | 5/21/2024 1:45:41 PM | | From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell | | | | Typically if you like the Mets, Jets, and Islanders, you don't like the Yankees, Giants, and Rangers. The Nets are so recent that both sets of fans usually also like the Knicks.
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| To: Broken_Clock who wrote (79340) | 5/21/2024 2:28:30 PM | | From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell | | | | Only 57% of D1 athletes get any form of a scholarship. Only for the so-called "head-count" sports (e.g. football (FBS), basketball, women's gymnastics, tennis, and volleyball) must every scholarship cover the full cost of attendance (i.e. Division I FBS football teams can offer up to 85 full-ride scholarships, and Division 1 women's volleyball teams can offer up to 12 full-ride scholarships per team). In "equivalency" sports (e.g. track & field, swimming, and baseball), scholarships are typically divided among multiple athletes (e.g. D1 baseball teams get to divide up 11.7 scholarships per team; that doesn't go very far).
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| To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (79342) | 5/21/2024 2:47:40 PM | | From: Bill | | | | The scholarship limits seem imbalanced. D1 hockey for both men and women get 18 each. Rowing gets 20. Soccer just 9.9. Men's hoop gets 13, women's 15 - one for every team member.
Women's golf gets 6, while men's gets 4.5. |
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| To: Broken_Clock who wrote (79344) | 5/21/2024 8:21:48 PM | | From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell | | | | I agree with you. Reparations make no sense. I'm just saying it's not a free ride for kids, especially baseball players. I think UConn has given only two kids full baseball scholarships-- ever.
What we are talking about here is ethics. For example, not too long ago there were no child labor laws, a minimum wage, an eight hour work day, or overtime. The line between fairness and exploitation is ever-changing for sure, but when it does change, that doesn't imply one side owes the other money. Obviously, forced labor, slavery, and other forms of coercion are never acceptable. And to be clear, making billions of dollars off college athletes who were not forced to play a given sport, while clearly unbalanced, does not fall into this latter category of exploitation.
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