"I know you know this, but baseball players can also qualify for academic scholarship money, which would offset the partial scholarship.
But, it's not a money issue. It's a Title 9 issue. I am sure any SEC school would be glad to shell out more scholarship money for better players, but they can't.
Back to recruiting...so we really have 4 catchers committed for this year?"
~ VolGee
Well VG, I know that's what everyone says, that it's a Title IX issue. It really isn't. Title IX is a minimum standard, really. The penalty for not complying is the loss of federal funds. I don't think they would take the funds from a school who was going beyond what the law requires. In other words, it would be MORE fair to ALL of the athletes.
If anything, the schools would argue all schools may not be able to afford it. In other words, Universities, like UT, BAMA, USC, OSU etc...hide behind Title IX and then use the funds to pay ridiculous salaries and for lavish infrastructure.
I know the argument will be made that football pays for everything and it might not be fair to treat the golfers, rowers, tennis players, baseball and softball players the same as the football players because those sports are not revenue producers. I can understand that argument I suppose, I just don't agree with it.
Hell, with the money we have paid coaches NOT to coach football for us, we could have put all athletes on a full ride for like 5-10 years.
As it pertains to baseball specifically, we'd immediately have a recruiting advantage over many schools and it would level the field with the Vanderbilts and Virginias of the world.
I know this is kind of an "out there" argument, I don't expect anyone to agree with me, it's just something I've thought about for a few years now.
GBO!!!