Northener wrote:
TrackCoach wrote:No school has 20 full rides for females in t&f.
Assuming you meant split between male/female, there are very few schools (if any) who give 10 full rides to females.!
So I stopped reading after the first two sentences. What would be the motivation for you lying on a message board like this? Or, if you are not lying, then why post something that you aren't sure of.
The NCAA maximum allowable amount of scholarship money that any D1 school can give for women's track/cross country is 20. It used to be 18 and was recently increased to 20. Ask any D1 college coach and they can confirm that number. In D2 the amount is 12.6.
Each school can decide how many scholarships they offer in each sport, up to the maximum allowable by NCAA regulations, in this case 20. Many of the smaller schools that don't have football do not offer 20 scholarships for their program. However, the majority of football schools do offer the full 20 scholarships, because it is needed to off set the male only football scholarships. The increase to 20 was done because schools were looking for more ways to off set the number of football scholarships. That is why the men only get 12.6 scholarships, even though they have just as much need for 20 scholarships as the women do, but it would hurt the gender equity numbers to offer the men more.
People like me are way to serious to spend time lying on messageboards. Please give me the name of one school that has 20 'full rides' to give out to the female track team? Perhaps you need to read a little more and understand what is generally referred to as a scholarship and what is actually a 'full ride' as in all you need is money for pizza on the weekend. Shoot Karen Harvey (FSU) an email and ask her how many girls she has in the 'full ride' category.