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Post by cake on Jun 23, 2022 13:45:32 GMT -8
The 21-member Transformation Committee co-chaired by SEC commissioner Greg Sankey and Ohio athletic director Julie Cromer are examining a wide array of topics. Among them are lifting the cap in financial aid awarded to athletes in equivalency sports — such as baseball, softball, hockey, track and field, soccer and lacrosse — who receive fractions of a scholarship, and converting those to head count (i.e., full scholarship) sports confined only by roster size limits. The majority of equivalency sports are women’s sports. Current head count sports are football, men’s and women’s basketball, gymnastics, women’s tennis and women’s volleyball.
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“I do agree with one thing, our athletic directors do pull their hair out over this equivalent stuff; 11.7 baseball scholarships — that’s kind of a nutty system. I do think if they can simplify it and maybe put roster limits and allow schools flexibility in that, that’s where we’re heading. That’s where the antitrust law is heading and that’s where all this is heading. I do believe the idea of getting rid of equivalencies is going to happen at some point.”
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Post by Henry Skrimshander on Jun 23, 2022 14:49:53 GMT -8
Good luck paying for all that.
Looks to me as if two men's sports are full-rides only (FB, BB) and four women's sports are (BB, VB, tennis, gym). So how can they say "most equivalency sports are women's sports?"
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Post by kersting13 on Jun 23, 2022 14:59:14 GMT -8
Good luck paying for all that. Looks to me as if two men's sports are full-rides only (FB, BB) and four women's sports are (BB, VB, tennis, gym). So how can they say "most equivalency sports are women's sports?" Because there are typically more women's sports than men's. OSU has 7 men and 9 women. So, OSU has 5 men's equivalencies, and 6 women's (no women's tennis). At OSU, it's true that most equivalency sports are women's sports. Right? 6>5. |
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Post by Henry Skrimshander on Jun 23, 2022 16:47:50 GMT -8
Good luck paying for all that. Looks to me as if two men's sports are full-rides only (FB, BB) and four women's sports are (BB, VB, tennis, gym). So how can they say "most equivalency sports are women's sports?" Because there are typically more women's sports than men's. OSU has 7 men and 9 women. So, OSU has 5 men's equivalencies, and 6 women's (no women's tennis). At OSU, it's true that most equivalency sports are women's sports. Right? 6>5. OSU has a very low number of men's sports for a P5 school. No T&F, no CC, no swimming, no tennis, no lacrosse, no hockey, sports that are offered at many of our peer institutions, especially in the Big Ten and ACC. The larger point is, how you going to pay for it? Better to bump up the # of scholarships to divvy up in the equivalency sports than to make everything a head-count sport. |
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