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The NCAA voted 79-1 today to allow the Power 5 schools to pay the full cost of college as a scholarship. The one negative vote was an ACC school. Wonder who?
 
I watched that Youngstown 30 for 30 and it really really makes you hate the NCAA
 
What does this mean? Power 5 can pay room, board and books too? How is this a change?
 
From the CNN article.

The vote, taken during the NCAA's annual convention, redefines an athletic scholarship so that it can cover not only the traditional tuition, room, board, books and fees, but also the incidental costs of attending college. That means a scholarship will now be able to pay for items including transportation and miscellaneous personal expenses.
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So schools can opt to pay players? Does this kick in before NSD?
 
Who decides what misc expenses are? Is a TV a misc expense, XBox?
 
Maybe BC was against it since the cost of living is higher in Boston?
 
bernbp5 said:
Who decides what misc expenses are? Is a TV a misc expense, XBox?
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Schools already have to determine a institutional "Cost of Attendance" for financial aid purposes that takes into account things beyond tuition, room and board. The school has a lot of discretion in determining this number. From my understanding, the new rule allows schools to provide athletes with money up to the school's official number.

There are going to be some competing pressures on setting this number now. The university side generally wants the Cost of Attendance number to be lower, so that they can advertise the school as less expensive to attend and not have to give as much financial aid to reach that number. But now you are going to have athletic departments wanting that number to be higher because recruits will probably drawn to places that offer more money, regardless of the fact that the differences in numbers should theoretically only account for the difference in costs in the area.

Will be interesting to see how this plays out
 
wsc8521s said:
Maybe BC was against it since the cost of living is higher in Boston?
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They were probably against it because they have a very poor athletic department. Their overall budget is around the size of Wake's, but they have way more sports that they have to spread it around with
 
How does this factor in to partial scholarships like baseball?
 
Deacfreak07 said:
How does this factor in to partial scholarships like baseball?
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I'm guessing it works like the current system. If you give a half scholarship, you can give the player half of the Cost of Attendance number
 
Assuming we will soon see a corresponding increase in Deacon Club giving levels. . . .
 
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