North Dakota Preps

Posted: **Thu Oct 18, 2007 4:37 pm**

I've read a lot of post's on here about getting notice by college coaches so you can get your college paid for. I'm interested in why so many of you think college athletes get there education payed. I've talked with many college players in Division 2 and NAIA and very few get a full ride. A lot of Football players get $500.00 a year or less. They play beacause they love the game. A starter on a DAC school basketball team might average $2000.00 a year. With tuition, books, fees, room and board costing around $9,000.00 to $10,000.00 a year it's still going to cost a big chunk of change. I'm not talking about academic money or financial need money, because if you qualify you get that if you don't play sports. Saying you want to transfer to a different school to get notice doesn't seem to make sense. If your good enough to deserve a full ride the colleges will find you.

I'm interest to hear your comments.

Posted: **Thu Oct 18, 2007 7:46 pm**

<span class="texteditorenhanced">[user=2728]teamball[/user] wrote:

I've read a lot of post's on here about getting notice by college coaches so you can get your college paid for. I'm interested in why so many of you think college athletes get there education payed. I've talked with many college players in Division 2 and NAIA and very few get a full ride. A lot of Football players get $500.00 a year or less. They play beacause they love the game. A starter on a DAC school basketball team might average $2000.00 a year. With tuition, books, fees, room and board costingÃ‚Â around $9,000.00 to $10,000.00 a year it's still going to cost a big chunk of change. I'm not talking about academic money or financial need money, because if you qualify you get that if you don't play sports. Saying you want to transfer to a different school to get notice doesn't seem to make sense. If your good enough to deserve a full ride the colleges will find you.

Ã‚Â

I'm interest to hear your comments.

</span>

You're right. Unless you go big time, athletic scholarships rarely amount to much. But anything is better than nothing.

Posted: **Fri Oct 19, 2007 4:42 am**

I think student athletes would be best suited by looking at the scholarship as a percentage of the total cost. The state NAIA schools cost for a student are considerably less than NDSU/UND so they offer less scholarships dollars. Schools can't offer a "true" full ride. Tuition is the only area that can be offered in most schools. That doesn't mean that you can't get academic or other scholarships above tuition. That depends on the institution.

North Dakota Preps

college scholarships