C-USA to help teams pay CoA costs
Quote:Power conference schools have far more resources than mid-major schools such as ODU to pay for the cost of attendance because of lucrative TV contracts. Yet, even some power conference officials are concerned about the new rule.
Auburn's athletes will receive nearly $6,000 in stipends, nearly twice the average in the SEC.
Clemson football coach Dabo Swinney told USA Today that the new rule is well-intended, but also is a "nightmare."
"For one school to be able to pay $3,000 or $4,000 more than another school, that means at the end of the day, guys are going to make decisions for the wrong reasons. I don't like where we are now."
Neither does the Colonial Athletic Association, which opposed the legislation. William & Mary athletic director Terry Driscoll said after the legislation passed that there was "little appetite" among Football Championship Subdivision schools to pay the stipends.
Still, Liberty University, which has aspirations of moving to the Football Bowl Subdivision, has announced it will pay full stipends - the only FCS school to do so. It will give the Flames a recruiting advantage among the state's seven FCS schools.
Liberty is a member of the Big South, which decided to offer stipends only in men's and women's basketball. But schools aren't limited by conference decisions.
James Madison, a member of the CAA, estimates its cost of attendance stipend at $4,180 per athlete. Athletic director Jeff Bourne told the Richmond Times-Dispatch last week that he's in the same situation as ODU - unsure of how much, if any, the Dukes, will pay.
That was the best title you could come up with for this topic?
(05-18-2015 10:07 AM)Niner National Wrote: [ -> ]That was the best title you could come up with for this topic?
Good thing about being a mod is I can go back and change things later.
Apparently the Virginia Pilot is now the C-USA newspaper of record. Sure as hell will never be the Charlotte Disturber. They can't afford to waste the bandwidth of print space that's normally reserved for telling it's readers about Roy William's bowel movements.
Doesn't matter to me what everyone else in the conference does, as long as no one tries to prevent Marshall from paying the FCOA I don't care.
Just makes it easier for us to continue getting to best recruits and continue playing for the CUSA Championship.
(05-18-2015 10:21 AM)FlyHawk98 Wrote: [ -> ]Doesn't matter to me what everyone else in the conference does, as long as no one tries to prevent Marshall from paying the FCOA I don't care.
Just makes it easier for us to continue getting to best recruits and continue playing for the CUSA Championship.
The problem with CoA is it's based on a Federal formula and so will vary greatly per school. Notice the part about Auburn's formula results pay nearly twice the SEC average. Marshall could have a CoA of $2000 and have to compete with C-USA or MAC schools that can offer $5000; and it's all based off some static formula that the school is virtually powerless to alter on its own.
(05-18-2015 10:32 AM)BeliefBlazer Wrote: [ -> ]http://www.bgdailynews.com/sports/wku/ua...4345.95465
A few have been released. WKU’s is about $2,800 per year, Rice’s is about $1,800, while UAB’s is about $5,200.
Charlotte's is $2,200 according to our AD last week. It's supposed to be based off of how expensive it is to attend school A versus school B; but all a recruit will see is UAB will pay them 3 times what Rice will. It's crazy! How does the NCAA/Power 5 get
EVERYTHING WRONG EVERY TIME?
With Auburn spitting out cash more than the rest of the SEC West....I don't see this manner of calculation lasting long.
(05-18-2015 10:33 AM)49RFootballNow Wrote: [ -> ] (05-18-2015 10:32 AM)BeliefBlazer Wrote: [ -> ]http://www.bgdailynews.com/sports/wku/ua...4345.95465
A few have been released. WKU’s is about $2,800 per year, Rice’s is about $1,800, while UAB’s is about $5,200.
Charlotte's is $2,200 according to our AD last week. It's supposed to be based off of how expensive it is to attend school A versus school B; but all a recruit will see is UAB will pay them 3 times what Rice will. It's crazy! How does the NCAA/Power 5 get EVERYTHING WRONG EVERY TIME?
Well, if no other team in the league is over $3,000 then I can see the UAB administration capping ours at that amount. Why pay more if no one in C-USA is? Especially when you are very concerned with money.
(05-18-2015 10:40 AM)BeliefBlazer Wrote: [ -> ] (05-18-2015 10:33 AM)49RFootballNow Wrote: [ -> ] (05-18-2015 10:32 AM)BeliefBlazer Wrote: [ -> ]http://www.bgdailynews.com/sports/wku/ua...4345.95465
A few have been released. WKU’s is about $2,800 per year, Rice’s is about $1,800, while UAB’s is about $5,200.
Charlotte's is $2,200 according to our AD last week. It's supposed to be based off of how expensive it is to attend school A versus school B; but all a recruit will see is UAB will pay them 3 times what Rice will. It's crazy! How does the NCAA/Power 5 get EVERYTHING WRONG EVERY TIME?
Well, if no other team in the league is over $3,000 then I can see the UAB administration capping ours at that amount. Why pay more if no one in C-USA is? Especially when you are very concerned with money.
The cost is based on a Federal formula. I've seen where schools can choose which sports to pay CoA on but not they they can change the amount per student-athlete.
(05-18-2015 10:07 AM)49RFootballNow Wrote: [ -> ]C-USA to help teams pay CoA costs
Quote:Clemson football coach Dabo Swinney told USA Today that the new rule is well-intended, but also is a "nightmare."
I just can't understand why it's just now that people are starting to figure out what Captain Obvious Dabo said here. I believe the term I used to describe this when it was first floated was a "plethora of issues."
The inability to apply consistency, the title IX compliance issues, the ability to use "money" in recruiting and on and on.
They have gone down a slippery slope they can never return from. The end of college athletics is nigh.
There needs to be a cap set at say 4K or so. The obvious advantage of some schools paying more than others is a problem.
(05-18-2015 10:48 AM)BeliefBlazer Wrote: [ -> ]You didn't ready the article you posted? 
Legislation passed at the January NCAA convention allows schools to pay as much or as little as they can afford toward that maximum cost. http://hamptonroads.com/2015/05/odu-will...how-much-0
OK, but you can't exceed the maximum cost per your school's formula?
(05-18-2015 10:07 AM)49RFootballNow Wrote: [ -> ]C-USA to help teams pay CoA costs
Quote:Power conference schools have far more resources than mid-major schools such as ODU to pay for the cost of attendance because of lucrative TV contracts. Yet, even some power conference officials are concerned about the new rule.
Auburn's athletes will receive nearly $6,000 in stipends, nearly twice the average in the SEC.
Clemson football coach Dabo Swinney told USA Today that the new rule is well-intended, but also is a "nightmare."
"For one school to be able to pay $3,000 or $4,000 more than another school, that means at the end of the day, guys are going to make decisions for the wrong reasons. I don't like where we are now."
Neither does the Colonial Athletic Association, which opposed the legislation. William & Mary athletic director Terry Driscoll said after the legislation passed that there was "little appetite" among Football Championship Subdivision schools to pay the stipends.
Still, Liberty University, which has aspirations of moving to the Football Bowl Subdivision, has announced it will pay full stipends - the only FCS school to do so. It will give the Flames a recruiting advantage among the state's seven FCS schools.
Liberty is a member of the Big South, which decided to offer stipends only in men's and women's basketball. But schools aren't limited by conference decisions.
James Madison, a member of the CAA, estimates its cost of attendance stipend at $4,180 per athlete. Athletic director Jeff Bourne told the Richmond Times-Dispatch last week that he's in the same situation as ODU - unsure of how much, if any, the Dukes, will pay.
Dabo was probably loving being able to provide his players with CoA to help get players that might go to a G5 shool beforehand. Now that the table has been shifted to where Clemson won't be paying as much he sees it as an unfair advantage and kids will choose a school for the wrong reason. So what were his thoughts when the P5 first announced they were paying CoA while it was unsure what the G5 would do?
(05-18-2015 11:23 AM)MUsince96 Wrote: [ -> ]There needs to be a cap set at say 4K or so. The obvious advantage of some schools paying more than others is a problem.
Definitely needs to be a cap on it.
As the stipend amounts stand now ("now" being the operative word here, as I could see these amounts ballooning eventually) I don't understand why a recruit would choose School A over School B because School A is paying a few thousand more per year than School B. If a student-athlete is really swayed by $10K - $15K extra over the course of four years when making a decision about where they want their degree to come from and what program would best help them go pro in their sport (assuming they're in basketball, baseball or football), that doesn't exactly bode well for their long-term decision making for the rest of their life.
I agree with previous posters that there should be a cap on the stiped.
(05-18-2015 11:59 AM)westsidewolf1989 Wrote: [ -> ]As the stipend amounts stand now ("now" being the operative word here, as I could see these amounts ballooning eventually) I don't understand why a recruit would choose School A over School B because School A is paying a few thousand more per year than School B. If a student-athlete is really swayed by $10K - $15K extra over the course of four years when making a decision about where they want their degree to come from and what program would best help them go pro in their sport (assuming they're in basketball, baseball or football), that doesn't exactly bode well for their long-term decision making for the rest of their life.
I agree with previous posters that there should be a cap on the stiped.
Most of these kids are just that, KIDS. They'll see a dollar amount difference and assume it's a better deal. A good many of these kids are from lower income background too. They won't hesitate to pick the school that's giving them more.