Any of you have reports on COA in your area? AJC print edition has SEC. Tennessee and Auburn are 1 and 2 in the nation:
Tennessee $5,666
Auburn 5,586
Alabama 5,386
Miss. St. 5,156
Miss. 4,890
Arkansas 4,500
Missouri 4,290
South Carolina 4,201
Florida 3,830
LSU 3,800
Georgia 3,746
Kentucky 3,598
Texas A&M 3,528
Vanderbilt-Did not reply

Article also mentioned Louisville was $5,202 and that SEC had 7 of the top 20.

(01-18-2016 10:14 AM)bullet Wrote:  Any of you have reports on COA in your area? AJC print edition has SEC. Tennessee and Auburn are 1 and 2 in the nation:
Tennessee $5,666
Auburn 5,586
Alabama 5,386
Miss. St. 5,156
Miss. 4,890
Arkansas 4,500
Missouri 4,290
South Carolina 4,201
Florida 3,830
LSU 3,800
Georgia 3,746
Kentucky 3,598
Texas A&M 3,528
Vanderbilt-Did not reply

Article also mentioned Louisville was $5,202 and that SEC had 7 of the top 20.

COA seems driven by apt rental cost in the school's region/area. I suspect as cities/metros are larger, the COA is higher. I think the two main components are travel cost and "living" cost.

The cost of living is usually higher on the east and west coast, and somewhat cheaper in the central states.

These numbers are per year or per semester?

The COA numbers are based on the numbers that schools report for financial aid purposes (ie, for regular students).

So, many schools - especially costly private schools - actually report lower numbers so that they look more attractive to prospective students (not student-athletes).

I remember seeing Boston College and USC among some of the LOWEST COA numbers, despite being in some of the most expensive areas in the country. Gotta keep that high number down for marketing purposes....

(01-18-2016 01:14 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  These numbers are per year or per semester?

Its for a 9 month school year.

Here's some I found for the Northeast.

Penn St - $4,788
Rutgers - $4,200
UConn - $3,350
UMass - $2,400
Syracuse - $1,632
Boston College - $1,400

Upper Midwest

Minnesota $3,700
Wisconsin $4,916
Iowa $3,300
Iowa State $2,430
NDSU $3400
SDSU $5000
UND $3400
USD $4,145
UNI $2,560

Here is a list provided by cbs as of last August.

coa

Memphis 5300

Yall poors

Arkansas State is $4504

(01-19-2016 08:57 AM)MinerInWisconsin Wrote:  Here is a list provided by cbs as of last August.

coa

I could see some differences between how good some of the G5 schools have better players than some of the P5 schools.

Here are the projections close to $4000 and above.

AAC
Cincinnati $6032
Memphis $5373
UCF $4944
Houston $4544
USF $4100
East Carolina $4025

C-USA
FAU $6060
FIU $6000
UAB $5668
North Texas $3970

MAC
Bowling Green $4486
Buffalo $3854
Toledo $3830

MWC
Boise State $5100
UNR $4800
Wyoming $4240
Hawaii $3925
San Jose State $3900
UNLV $3800
Utah State 3720
San Diego State $3500

Sun Belt
La-Monroe $6056
Georgia Southern $5880
South Alabama $5470
Ne Mexico State $4046
La-Lafayette $4036
Arkansas State $4000
Idaho $3604

BYU $4500

P5 schools below $3000 or no report.
Syracuse ?
Pittsburgh ?
Miami ?
Duke ?
Boston College $1250
Georgia Tech $2000
North Carolina State $2706
Ohio State 2970
Michigan State $2976
Illinois $2900
Michigan $2354
Northwestern ?
Kansas $2908
West Virginia $2700
Iowa State $2430
Baylor ?
California $2800
Oregon State $2484
Oregon $2382
Arizona $1682
USC $1580
Vanderbilt ?
Notre Dame $2200

If a player is poor from a poor family? Which schools would he want to play for for FCOAs? I say some of the better players who come from the poor areas would go where the money is and pick schools like in the G5 instead of the schools that are P5 who offer less than $3000. That is why Houston was picking up some good players than Texas.

(01-19-2016 02:37 PM)shere khan Wrote:  Memphis 5300

Yall poors

If COA is what a student with a full ride scholarship is short, then a higher COA would mean y'all poors, until the COA came to level things out.