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The NCAA recently passed legislation allowing colleges to give athletes a stipend to cover the full cost of admission as defined by the school.
That gives each school the opportunity to play with the numbers. Here is a list of the claimed full cost of attendance for each SEC school in the 2015 - 2016 school year,
Tennessee: $5,666
Auburn: $5,586
Mississippi State: $5,372
Alabama: $4,886
Mississippi: $4,600
South Carolina: $4,151
Arkansas: $4,104
LSU: $3,920
Georgia: $3,746 non-state resident, $3,222 resident
Missouri: $3,742
Texas A & M: $3,528 non-state resident, $3,000 resident
Kentucky: $3,524 non-state resident, $3,256 resident
Florida: $3,330 res/non-res
Vanderbilt: $2,780
You might notice that the better academic institutions are near the bottom of that list. That's not a coincidence.
The true cost of a scholarship that is determined for paying athletes has to be uniform for all students. That means when the university is recruiting top talent for the physics department they have to use the same numbers that the athletic department uses when they are recruiting running backs.
Obviously, on the academic side you want to make the expenses seem as low as possible to assist you in attracting the top students. On the athletic side you want to make the expenses seem as high as possible so that you can offer athletes more cash.
This is an issue that is going to eventually cause a lot of friction between the athletic department and the rest of the school.
Saban has already started lobbying for a new rule placing a cap on the amount offered. Without a cap I could definitely see a bidding war driving these calculations higher and higher and alienating the athletic department more and more from the academic leadership at the school.
The fact that Tennessee can offer a recruit $2,336 dollars more than Florida has to make a difference to some of the athletes that come from a lower socio-economic background.
That gives each school the opportunity to play with the numbers. Here is a list of the claimed full cost of attendance for each SEC school in the 2015 - 2016 school year,
Tennessee: $5,666
Auburn: $5,586
Mississippi State: $5,372
Alabama: $4,886
Mississippi: $4,600
South Carolina: $4,151
Arkansas: $4,104
LSU: $3,920
Georgia: $3,746 non-state resident, $3,222 resident
Missouri: $3,742
Texas A & M: $3,528 non-state resident, $3,000 resident
Kentucky: $3,524 non-state resident, $3,256 resident
Florida: $3,330 res/non-res
Vanderbilt: $2,780
You might notice that the better academic institutions are near the bottom of that list. That's not a coincidence.
The true cost of a scholarship that is determined for paying athletes has to be uniform for all students. That means when the university is recruiting top talent for the physics department they have to use the same numbers that the athletic department uses when they are recruiting running backs.
Obviously, on the academic side you want to make the expenses seem as low as possible to assist you in attracting the top students. On the athletic side you want to make the expenses seem as high as possible so that you can offer athletes more cash.
This is an issue that is going to eventually cause a lot of friction between the athletic department and the rest of the school.
Saban has already started lobbying for a new rule placing a cap on the amount offered. Without a cap I could definitely see a bidding war driving these calculations higher and higher and alienating the athletic department more and more from the academic leadership at the school.
The fact that Tennessee can offer a recruit $2,336 dollars more than Florida has to make a difference to some of the athletes that come from a lower socio-economic background.
........it's 170% per payment.....daily, weekly, monthly, yearly......doesn't matter....everyone knows that is a yearly number, it isn't paid once a year.
