What you fail to realize is that every other sport at NU other than basketball and Hockey (and not all hockey players) does not give out 'full rides". The majority of the other student athletes at NU have a partial scholarship or NO scholarship at all. Most of the sports have a limit/cap on the schlarship amount they can give each individual athlete. Basketball has full ride "practice players", when the other sports best players are on very little scholarship money - if any.
These quality student athletes should be applauded by someone like you - who claims to bleed purple and white - not degraded and put down. I thought that our fans would support all our teams, and wish them every success possible. unfortunately in your case it would appear that you cannot see past the basketball program - what a shame for you.
When you say that these student athletes from the 'Olympic sports' should be glad to to work every event that comes along to supplement there free education - PLEASE remember that they are not receiving a FREE education. They are actually working these events to fundraise enough money to pay for uniforms, training gear and the basic equipment involved to function as a team.
Please try to be a little more informed when talking about any sport other than basketball, because if you don't you just look like a bigger jackass than normal.
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Date Posted:Monday, June 29, 08:20:55pm Author Host/IP: cache-mtc-ab08.proxy.aol.com/64.12.116.72
Like I said, nobody forces anyone to sign a LOI. That is strictly voluntary on your part.
If how would you like to be required to do nothing at all and go to school for free? That's called paying for it yourself.
I am not being condescending to the sports programs that don't get the full rides or the perks, for I am NOT talking in reference to them.
I did more community service for NU than your whole team did while I was at NU and I paid 100% for everything I got from Niagara. I worked 20 hours a week for nothing as a volunteer and never once did I view it as a burden but I also worked 30 hours per week at a job to pay for rent, school and food.
I don't know what I would have given up to play college sports, but given the chance I would have given it a shot.
Don't feel persecuted as a student/athlete. Life could have been much worse, believe me.
Date Posted:Monday, June 29, 08:31:28pm Author Host/IP: dsl081-135-087.nyc1.dsl.speakeasy.net/64.81.135.87
the difference was you still got to have a social life (get drunk, do some stupid stuff, etc) and didn't have a bunch of people in the media and on the internet constantly reporting and second-guessing your work.
Date Posted:Monday, June 29, 08:59:37pm Author Host/IP: cache-mtc-ab08.proxy.aol.com/64.12.116.72
You know, in days gone by old Babe Ruth would get hammered before/after he pitched and everyone knew it. So did many others in college sports as well. Nobody cared. It would be covered up.
Now the stakes are higher. First off, drinking under 21 is illegal. If you do when your team says no, and you agreed to that, then you have to live by your decisions. Yes, you will be judged by a higher standard, and that's because some little impressionable girl or boy might look to you as a hero in some way and I know it's a lot to ask, but then again people who excell as D1 athletes are unique and rare to begin with. Is it too much to ask that they take their position seriously? That's why the signature on the form is for your name and not somebody elses.
Date Posted:Monday, June 29, 08:37:50pm Author Host/IP: cache-ntc-ac04.proxy.aol.com/207.200.116.133
Well said.....the other programs do NOT provide full rides. Many of the so called " athletic scholarships " provide partial aid , which is fine . The point being ignored is that most student athletes don't mind making sacrifices to help their programs fund road road trips, uniforms and equipment . It seems as though sacrifices are not being asked of all the athletic programs.
It's disgraceful for the basketball program ( JAM ) to avoid money games ( 2) like the plague when that revenue could be so beneficial to all of the athletic programs , basketball included.
In these difficult economic times, it's incomprehensible how an AD can sit back and allow potential revenue to go by the wayside for fear of incurring a meaningless loss.
Where is the sacrifice on the part of men's basketball ???
Date Posted:Monday, June 29, 08:52:02pm Author Host/IP: cache-mtc-ab08.proxy.aol.com/64.12.116.72
Life isn't fair sometimes, but if you are a fan of religion, perhaps the meek shall inherit the earth. It's never been about what you do when somebody is looking truthful, it's about what you do that nobody sees.
