Congrats to Vanderbilt.

No one is beating Vandy. That lineup is lethal

You aren't continually close to a natty if you continuously get your arse kicked.

Thanks. Never fun playing y’all. Good luck tonight.

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recently two womens title games, one lost on a 3 point buzzer beater drove me to drinking

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Jeez.

If women’s sports does that, what does football do to you?

Heroin? Meth?

What can you expect when Vandy is allowed to have unlimited scholarships through a loophole. It’s an unfair advantage that needs to be addressed by the ncaa

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that needs to be addressed by the ncaa

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It is addressed by the NCAA.

Why are fans of the Mississippi baseball programs so fixated on this? It gets mentioned in passing by others but folks in the Magnolia State are obsessed.

Here’s the thing, 11.7 scholarships divided among 35 athletes at a school that charges $25k a year has an EXTREME advantage over a school with 11.7 scholarships divided among 35 athletes at a school that charges $70k a year. Is that really “fair?”

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Why are fans of the Mississippi baseball programs so fixated on this? It gets mentioned in passing by others but folks in the Magnolia State are obsessed.

Here’s the thing, 11.7 scholarships divided among 35 athletes at a school that charges $25k a year has an EXTREME advantage over a school with 11.7 scholarships divided among 35 athletes at a school that charges $70k a year. Is that really “fair?”

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Except Vandy isn't just dividing 11.7 scholarships. Every man on the Vandy roster is getting a scholarship, whether it's through the 11.7 or Vandy's generous financial aid program. The size and scope of that program allows Vandy to concentrate their baseball scholarship money in ways that other schools can't. It's still not an easy deal for Vandy (if it was, they'd do it every year), but it's silly for Vandy fans to pretend that they are facing the same constraints as other schools.

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it's silly for Vandy fans to pretend that they are facing the same constraints as other schools.

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No, the constraints aren't the same, but the starting points aren't the same either. Both the private and public schools have their advantages in these situations. The public schools have much lower costs to attend to start with and can calculate their 11.7 scholarships as if every baseball player is coming from out of state. The private schools have higher stated cost of attendance but more generous financial aid available to ALL students on campus, which does benefit athletes.

Really and sincerely, if you deep dive into the demographcis involved (ie the typical elite D1 baseball recruit is coming from a middle to upper middle class family) and how the private financial aid programs work along with how academic, need-based, and athletic scholarships work under NCAA policy, the private school "need-based" programs essentially just serve to make private schools cost as much to attend as a public school. Which, obviously, then means the public schools do lose the advantage they have typically had of being cheaper is gone.