SCANDALOUS: Bigtime College Athletics Bribery Scheme Nabs Hollywood Stars

[focomoso]

How does that work exactly? The coach approaches you and asks whether you are willing to go to the school without any scholarship? That somewhat gives away the fact that you are being recruited as a bench player and may not see much playing time. On the other hand, if this helps get you into the dream school you wanted, then it's all good I guess.

A whole class of schools don't have scholarships at all - including all division 3 schools and the Ivys - so the players at those schools play because they love the sport. These kids are still recruited heavily, though, because these teams still want to win.

Even in division I, no school is allowed more than 9.5 soccer scholarships per team (for men, its more for women) so there are either starters not getting a scholarship or even fewer kids getting full rides. If you look at the stats here: http://www.scholarshipstats.com/soccer.html the average scholarship is often way lower than the tuition. Compare this to football where the top 130 schools can give out 85 scholarships and next 130 can give 65.

Soccer in the US is not an easy path to free college. The only kids getting full scholarships to prestigious programs are at the level where they have to make a serious decision about whether or not to turn pro.

 

[Eagle33]

A whole class of schools don't have scholarships at all - including all division 3 schools and the Ivys - so the players at those schools play because they love the sport. These kids are still recruited heavily, though, because these teams still want to win.

Even in division I, no school is allowed more than 9.5 soccer scholarships per team (for men, its more for women) so there are either starters not getting a scholarship or even fewer kids getting full rides. If you look at the stats here: http://www.scholarshipstats.com/soccer.html the average scholarship is often way lower than the tuition. Compare this to football where the top 130 schools can give out 85 scholarships and next 130 can give 65.

Soccer in the US is not an easy path to free college. The only kids getting full scholarships to prestigious programs are at the level where they have to make a serious decision about whether or not to turn pro.

There are ways for Div III schools to give scholarships to athletes. They just don't use "athletic scholarships" term as it's not allowed.

 

[Speed]

How does that work exactly? The coach approaches you and asks whether you are willing to go to the school without any scholarship? That somewhat gives away the fact that you are being recruited as a bench player and may not see much playing time. On the other hand, if this helps get you into the dream school you wanted, then it's all good I guess.

A friend of ours got into a very prestige school with volleyball but without scholarship. She left the team after just one year. It never occurred to me to ask her if she ever intended to actually play college ball.

we know someone who went to UCLA sat the bench for one year and quit. Her whole angle was to use soccer to get in because she wouldn't have otherwise

 

[focomoso]

we know someone who went to UCLA sat the bench for one year and quit. Her whole angle was to use soccer to get in because she wouldn't have otherwise

Do you know whether she had a scholarship?

 

[espola]

There are ways for Div III schools to give scholarships to athletes. They just don't use "athletic scholarships" term as it's not allowed.

Even Ivy League schools figure out how to get scholarships for athletes, or some money disguised as something else. Serious ocean racers used to hire football players as grinders, since the only requirements were strength, endurance, and body mass when shiftable ballast was needed, and would hire them from their alma maters for a few weeks in the summer. Cornell took advantage of the fact that the New York State College of Agriculture shared the Cornell campus (and thus all social and athletic activities). Hockey Coach Ned Harkness in the 60's found that he could get scholarships from NYSCA for big Canadian boys who would play hockey and lacrosse wearing Cornell jerseys.