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re: Why Do Wealthy Parents Let Their Kids Sign Scholarship Papers?
Posted on 2/22/18 at 10:28 am to DingLeeBerry
Posted on 2/22/18 at 10:28 am to DingLeeBerry
If you were wealthy but still decided to work and had a 401k. Would you turn down the company match just because you are loaded?
Posted on 2/22/18 at 10:53 am to DingLeeBerry
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And I’m talking about the anomalies
I do not think that word means what you think it means
I am saying that most rich people will take free money. They didn't get rich by giving it away. An anomaly would be that rare individual who does give it away. 1 in a 1,000
Posted on 2/22/18 at 10:55 am to HempHead
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Yes. A player that garners significant recruiting interest will count against the scholarship limit (at least the 85) even if they are able to fund themselves.
That a bullshite rule.
Posted on 2/22/18 at 11:03 am to Goldrush25
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Yes. A player that garners significant recruiting interest will count against the scholarship limit (at least the 85) even if they are able to fund themselves.
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That a bullshitee rule.
Yeah, I think he is mistaken. The rule is 85 limit on scholarship. If a kid does not get a scholarship he is not counted.
For instance, if a kid gets significant interest from UGA, Florida, Georgia State, GT, NC, NC State, etc., but his heart is at ND, yet they do not offer him, and he decides to walk on to ND, then ND is not going to be charged a for a scholarship they did not offer.
Posted on 2/22/18 at 11:04 am to Goldrush25
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That a bullshite rule.
Not when you think about all the ways boosters and schools could abuse a system that allowed 'self-funded' 5*s to not count against scholarship limits. 'Rich' Aunts and Uncles would show up everywhere as schools tried to get a few more blue chips in without them counting towards the 85.
This post was edited on 2/22/18 at 11:04 am
Posted on 2/22/18 at 12:09 pm to DingLeeBerry
Because they earned it.
Having the athletic ability and work ethic needed to earn a scholarship isn't exclusive to poor people.
Likewise, being rich or well off doesn't keep you from deserving an athletic scholarship.
I guess we could ask why poor people go to college at all when they can just sit on their butts and collect welfare checks like the rest of their family.
Having the athletic ability and work ethic needed to earn a scholarship isn't exclusive to poor people.
Likewise, being rich or well off doesn't keep you from deserving an athletic scholarship.
I guess we could ask why poor people go to college at all when they can just sit on their butts and collect welfare checks like the rest of their family.
Posted on 2/22/18 at 2:32 pm to DingLeeBerry
Unless you are talking about trust fund, generational level wealth, most wealthy people don't become wealthy or stay wealthy by turning down 100k + of free money or especially by letting people coerce them into paying for something that is free just because they are rich.
Posted on 2/22/18 at 3:04 pm to Monticello
Ok, I’ll say it one more time, I’m not talking about anyone being coerced into anything. I’m talking about weighing the pros and cons of being on scholarship vs not and a select few who might not view the financial benefits of a scholarship as the determining factor as to which option they feel is best for their situation. There have been a few examples provided by others in this thread of people passing on scholarships.
Posted on 2/22/18 at 3:14 pm to DawgsLife
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I'm pretty sure the 85 limit is for scholarship players, so walk-ons do not count toward that, either
Yes they do if they're going to play at all. If they dress out and are the guys that get pulled off the bench in the 4th qtr when you're up 30 points, then they count towards the 85 man limit.
If they're the walk ons that are only scout and only dress out for scrimmages and the spring game, then no they don't count.
Posted on 2/22/18 at 3:17 pm to DingLeeBerry
Wealthy people don't become wealthy without being stingy muthafrickas....
Posted on 2/22/18 at 3:23 pm to BowlJackson
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Yes they do if they're going to play at all. If they dress out and are the guys that get pulled off the bench in the 4th qtr when you're up 30 points, then they count towards the 85 man limit.
Okay, so Georgia only has two scholarship QB's on the roster. (Fromm and Fields) We have 85 players total on scholarship. If Fromm and Fields got hurt we could not put a walk on QB in the game?
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Wait...after thinking this through, this can't be right. Rodrigo Blankenship was not on scholarship until just before the ND game. He wasn't on scholarship all last year, yet he kicked for us in every game, or close to it, anyway. He was a walk on.
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Blankenship entered Georgia in 2015 as a preferred walk-on and red-shirted his first year.[4] As a red-shirt freshman, Blankenship earned the starting kicker spot. During the 2016 season, Blankenship was 14-for-18 on field goals and 26-for-26 on extra points.[9] He led the team in scoring and was named to the All-SEC Freshman team.[4]
In 2017 – his redshirt sophomore season – Blankenship received a full athletic scholarship.[10]
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This post was edited on 2/22/18 at 3:29 pm
Posted on 2/22/18 at 3:23 pm to ConwayGamecock
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Wealthy people don't become wealthy without being stingy muthafrickas....
Smart does not equal stingy.
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But I don't think you meant it that way, fwiw.
This post was edited on 2/22/18 at 3:24 pm
Posted on 2/22/18 at 3:37 pm to DawgsLife
Posted on 2/22/18 at 3:59 pm to DawgsLife
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DawgsLife
I dont think you're understanding this. The 85 man limit is not referring to scholarships. Walk-ons can play, you don't have to be on scholarship to play. Every game every school probably plays multiple walk-ons
But the second a walk-on steps onto that and plays a down in that game, they count against the 85 man limit.
And every player on scholarship automatically counts towards the 85 man limit whether they play or not.
You following?
Posted on 2/22/18 at 4:22 pm to DawgsLife
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Smart does not equal stingy.
ETA
But I don't think you meant it that way, fwiw.
In many ways stingy very much equals smart. Survival instincts can in most ways also be described as stingy. I've never heard of anyone saying that survival instincts are dumb.....
Posted on 2/22/18 at 4:28 pm to BowlJackson
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But the second a walk-on steps onto that and plays a down in that game, they count against the 85 man limit.
And every player on scholarship automatically counts towards the 85 man limit whether they play or not.
You following?
I think you may be confusing and/or conflating the travel roster limit with the 85 scholarship limit.
Posted on 2/22/18 at 8:33 pm to Prof
There is quite a bit of misinformation in this thread. Football is a bad sport to use in this scenario. Baseball is a more useful scenario. The degree of recruiting has no bearing on someone "having" to get a scholarship. For instance: Player A is being recruited and has been offered numerous partial scholarships to D1 schools. He has great test scores and a 4.0 GPA coming out of high school and would rather take the scholarship money from academics and go to his "dream" school and walk on. His dream school is not obligated to match the athletic money offered by other schools. Now there are some different rules for multi sport athletes for sure.
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