WayneFleekHoosier Posted September 30 Posted September 30 College sports can also be a grift! Here's a true story for y'all: Smaller D2 or lower level private colleges that have extremely high price tags for tuition offer partial tuition "scholarships" to most non-athlete students. They also offer partial athletic scholarships instead of full ones. They also have a very tough time keeping afloat with enough paid students. So here's the grift: Offer a marginal player a partial athletic scholarship, similar to the non-athletic one they'd offer any decent student. Way, way, way overstock the roster - bring in 15 freshmen a year for the baseball or soccer squad. Let them all practice, but only the top 20 on varsity get to travel. After a year or two, once the kids have acclimated to and made friends at the school and on the team, inform about 20 kids a year that their scholarship will not be renewed, but that they are welcome to stay at the school at a reduced tuition rate. Generate about 100 paid tuition - regular student customers a year from various sports. Well stated. My oldest son is playing college baseball in a similar scenario. He gets 20k academic scholarship, and 6k baseball so that 35k tuition becomes reasonable. He loves it and it’s a great school so we are happy as parents but your description of the scenario isn’t lost on me either. This school doesn’t do a lot of the cutting but playing time is hard to come by and the effort required are a lot, so some phase themselves out. Sent from my iPad using BtownBanners mobile app Stuhoo and thebigweave 2 Quote
Demo Posted October 3 Posted October 3 Sounds like Billy Gillespie may be out at Tarleton St. One of the all time career flameouts. Quote
Class of '66 Old Fart Posted October 3 Posted October 3 ESPN story on Billy Gillespie https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/46476462/sources-tarleton-state-billy-gillispie-leave-amid-inquiry Demo and jermhoosierfan 2 Quote
HoosierDevils Posted October 4 Posted October 4 Jon Scheyer announced Jayson Tatum will be spending a lot of time with the Duke team this year as he’s rehabbing. Smart move. They had Cam Williams and Jordan Smith at Countdown to Craziness: https://x.com/bluedevilnation/status/1974280249425678588?s=46&t=Fcw6K8fSPVNFaq5-eOwH9w Meanwhile in Arizona…Gronk crashes the scrimmage: https://x.com/thefieldof68/status/1974338634829410604?s=46&t=Fcw6K8fSPVNFaq5-eOwH9w thebigweave and OliviaPope40 2 Quote
HoosierHoopster Posted October 5 Posted October 5 On 10/3/2025 at 10:33 AM, Class of '66 Old Fart said: ESPN story on Billy Gillespie https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/46476462/sources-tarleton-state-billy-gillispie-leave-amid-inquiry What a guy…. ALASKA HOOSIER 1 Quote
Popular Post LamarCheeks Posted October 10 Popular Post Posted October 10 106 years. What an amazing life. RIP, Sister Jean ... fwgreenway, Ryno6284, HoosierHoopster and 7 others 9 1 Quote
IUCrazy2 Posted October 10 Posted October 10 Sounds like Leary got himself in trouble again.... https://bustednewspaper.com/indiana/leary-todd-christopher/20251009-085900/ cybergates 1 Quote
str8baller Posted October 10 Posted October 10 6 hours ago, LamarCheeks said: 106 years. What an amazing life. RIP, Sister Jean ... One of the more unlikely college basketball “celebrities “ I can remember. 106 years is a long life! For reference she would have been an adult already for IU and Branch McCracken’s FIRST title team. In fact, she was only about 10 yrs younger than Branch. WayneFleekHoosier, J34, Demo and 3 others 6 Quote
Demo Posted October 11 Posted October 11 St Louis blows away Iowa in a scrimmage game at SLU today by 25. Apparently put up a hundred. Definitely more of a Schertz game than a McCollum game. Stuhoo, LIHoosier, Jeff Flabjohns and 3 others 6 Quote
WayneFleekHoosier Posted October 12 Posted October 12 St Louis blows away Iowa in a scrimmage game at SLU today by 25. Apparently put up a hundred. Definitely more of a Schertz game than a McCollum game.Hmmm. Trying not to read too much into this one. Sent from my iPad using BtownBanners mobile app Quote
Hovadipo Posted October 12 Posted October 12 1 hour ago, Demo said: St Louis blows away Iowa in a scrimmage game at SLU today by 25. Apparently put up a hundred. Definitely more of a Schertz game than a McCollum game. I’m sure this stat is out there…I wonder what their record was against each other in their D2 days. Quote
Class of '66 Old Fart Posted October 12 Posted October 12 14 hours ago, Demo said: St Louis blows away Iowa in a scrimmage game at SLU today by 25. Apparently put up a hundred. Definitely more of a Schertz game than a McCollum game. One brief summary I saw. Double digit win. McCollum played lots of different lineups and put players in different positions. Iowa's center did not play due to a hamstring injury. Iowa 20 TOs. Home Jersey, HoosierHoopster and Demo 3 Quote
Uspshoosier Posted October 12 Posted October 12 https://kenpom.com/ IU starts out 40th. Last time IU finished top 25 in KenPom in a season was 2016. HoosierHoopster 1 Quote
Brass Cannon Posted October 12 Posted October 12 There’s always a lot of movement to start the season. Usually we fall off dramatically as other teams move up to take our spot. Hopefully that has changed Quote
Stuhoo Posted October 12 Posted October 12 52 minutes ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said: One brief summary I saw. Double digit win. McCollum played lots of different lineups and put players in different positions. Iowa's center did not play due to a hamstring injury. Iowa 20 TOs. Didn’t think a McCollum team could play with enough tempo to commit 20 turnovers. Sheets must’ve really managed to speed them up. Quote
WayneFleekHoosier Posted October 12 Posted October 12 6 hours ago, Uspshoosier said: https://kenpom.com/ IU starts out 40th. Last time IU finished top 25 in KenPom in a season was 2016. Not ideal imo. But you gotta start somewhere. DeVries and Admin have done well to lower the expectations on the season. Bar is back to making NCAAs. I like DeVries. I think he quietly super competitive. He says in interviews, make the tournament and anything can happen. Well, that’s not entirely true. Definitely a cut off from the contenders to the bottom tournament teams. Most projections put us just within or on the bubble. Curious how patient the fanbase remains. Football has lulled the fanbase into a sense of euphoria. lol. I do think making the tournament as the bar is fair but the expectations need to be higher and quickly. Josh and Scotty R 1 1 Quote
Stuhoo Posted October 12 Posted October 12 2 hours ago, WayneFleekHoosier said: Not ideal imo. But you gotta start somewhere. DeVries and Admin have done well to lower the expectations on the season. Bar is back to making NCAAs. I like DeVries. I think he quietly super competitive. He says in interviews, make the tournament and anything can happen. Well, that’s not entirely true. Definitely a cut off from the contenders to the bottom tournament teams. Most projections put us just within or on the bubble. Curious how patient the fanbase remains. Football has lulled the fanbase into a sense of euphoria. lol. I do think making the tournament as the bar is fair but the expectations need to be higher and quickly. With football rocking, the pressure on Devries will be significantly less. Hoosier Roots and thebigweave 2 Quote
8bucks Posted October 13 Posted October 13 42 minutes ago, Stuhoo said: With football rocking, the pressure on Devries will be significantly less. Does he lose some % of the NIL/Revenue share pot? I would think so which could make it interesting if we can’t land kids to compete at the top of the conference let alone country Quote
Stuhoo Posted October 13 Posted October 13 4 minutes ago, 8bucks said: Does he lose some % of the NIL/Revenue share pot? I would think so which could make it interesting if we can’t land kids to compete at the top of the conference let alone country It’s a much bigger pot, but yes Quote
JimmerNoe Posted October 13 Posted October 13 3 minutes ago, Stuhoo said: It’s a much bigger pot, but yes Would think it’s a rising tide that lifts all boats scenario though. Massive influx of revenue and interest in the Indiana athletics pot because of football would probably offset a slightly lower percentage of the pot. taco corp, Stuhoo and J34 3 Quote
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