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How is this not a fixed amount? This is completely ridiculous and unfair as hell.

You get 3k more/year to go to Tennessee instead of Georgia Tech? This will definitely influence student athlete's decisions on schools in a major way.

If anything, the schools which are academically more challenging (Northwestern, Wake, Georgia Tech, Vanderbilt, Stanford) should have the HIGHEST stipends...not some mediocre school like Tennessee.
 
wesleyd21 said:
How is this not a fixed amount? This is completely ridiculous and unfair as hell.

You get 3k more/year to go to Tennessee instead of Georgia Tech? This will definitely influence student athlete's decisions on schools in a major way.

If anything, the schools which are academically more challenging (Northwestern, Wake, Georgia Tech, Vanderbilt, Stanford) should have the HIGHEST stipends...not some mediocre school like Tennessee.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yrdGAMgdy4 :rotfl:
 
One thing that I thought was interesting was that this money is going to all student athletes and not just football players. That means Universities with a large amount of scholarship student athletes are going to have to carry a much larger burden than a smaller school. I know GT has ~225 scholarship athletes at any given time and uga has about 275, does anyone know how big or small this number can be at other schools?
 
Don't worry. We're working to modify the cost of attendance based on a student's 40 time and the number of reps of 225 lbs.
 
Jeffgt00 said:
One thing that I thought was interesting was that this money is going to all student athletes and not just football players.
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Treating all sports the same will punish non-revenue sports. Soon we'll see lacrosse, soccer, hockey, and other large team / low revenue sports shut down.

If you're an athletic association, why have any thing other than football, basketball, baseball, and a few women's teams to stay Title IX compliant?
 
This number will get reengineered big time if thats what they're going to use. Time to get the hill to do the math right!
 
Article says about $1000 of the difference between us and UGA is that we provide a laptop. Giving out laptops is a nice bonus if there's no stipend, but it's just working against us now. Quit giving out laptops and other benefits (do athletes get a free parking pass?), and give them the money instead.
 
ChrisW said:
Article says about $1000 of the difference between us and UGA is that we provide a laptop. Giving out laptops is a nice bonus if there's no stipend, but it's just working against us now. Quit giving out laptops and other benefits (do athletes get a free parking pass?), and give them the money instead.
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Laptop should only affect Year 1, unless we give a new laptop every year.
 
True. I guess my point is that the game has changed. Before we wanted to give athletes as much as was permissable. Now we should give as little as possible so that the cost of attendance goes up and we can give them more cash.
 
gtphd said:
Treating all sports the same will punish non-revenue sports. Soon we'll see lacrosse, soccer, hockey, and other large team / low revenue sports shut down.

If you're an athletic association, why have any thing other than football, basketball, baseball, and a few women's teams to stay Title IX compliant?
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Because the stipends aren't that big and the non-revenue sports justify having football players be "just student athletes". I imagine they'll stay at a level where no non-revenue sports will have to be cut from major colleges. Don't forget, it's the schools themselves collaborating on setting the amount that can be paid.

We won't see non-revenue sports start folding or being drastically altered unless the courts find the member schools in violation of anti-trust law and they start having to pay football players a collectively bargained percentage of revenue.
 
ramblinwise1 said:
This number will get reengineered big time if thats what they're going to use. Time to get the hill to do the math right!
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But then schools will have raise their coa targets for all students, which is used for marketing and federal aid purposes. That's why they are all so different.
 
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If we really wanted to play the game we should have laptops available for kids to borrow and then return when they are done at school. But we won't and don't.
 
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