How would "Free" College affect Recruiting and CFB?
Assuming that a certain candidate is elected and free college becomes law, how do you guys think that would affect college recruiting and performance of teams? Would teams be able to stockpile talent again like Nebraska and the different walk ons getting academic scholarships? Please let's not turn this into a political debate thread, just curious to how you guys think it would affect CFB!
There's a big financial difference between free tuition and a full scholarship for football. We might see a few more walkons turning down non-power 5 offers.
Uhhh it wouldn't
Free college might help you know the difference between effect and affect.
Anything "free" usually menas you get what you pay for.
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Due to downsizing, I was forced to live in Enenema Heights one year and the difference is measurable by nothing more than a quick drive through both.
Helluva lot better than menses.
Free public school education in action
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Assuming that a certain candidate is elected
It might get good in that sense, but let's hope that it doesn't - it is an interesting enough question and doesn't require someone to go on about particular candidates. To that end, the thread can definitely stay unless someone ruins it beyond any sort of repair (and this interface does make repairs difficult - I will say that right here in the event someone who would say something unnecessary is reading).
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I don't think it would affect anyone too much. It would allow teams from more presitgious programs to stockpile more players as freshmen, but they all transfer out nowadays if they aren't getting the playing time they want. I think we would just see more transfers as players who don't do well figure out they are just "meat" for the guys who are going to play.
over the stack of cash that Ole Miss gave him.
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Could we not have taken more players than we did in recruiting? Would we not be able to avoid firm handshakes to some 5th year players?
I think that it would benefit some of the larger programs - however slightly.
and Ohio would still be obsessed with the potato...
I was just gonna say that I'd like to see how college would become free, pretty tall order that probably is just not feasible
but how do you pay the tenured professors? College is more expensive than K-12 isn't it?
Sanders says he thinks we can do publicly-funded college for $78 billion. I don't know if that is realistic or not, or what the parameters of that plan exactly are. I do like that he is talking about this issue and hopefully some good will come of it, but I tend to think the best solutions are probably going to be a lot more complex than just having Congress write a check.
Of course, we have traditionally made college broadly accessible through student loans. But tuition rates have climbed steadily over the past three decades and are now at levels where students funding their educations with loans are graduating with obscene amounts of debt. Student loan default rates are over 15% and climbing, and even those who are paying back their loans are having to defer or forego important financial priorities such as purchasing homes, starting families, or saving for retirement. This has already started to drag the economy and will only become a greater factor as more students finish college with even more debt.
So, I think some kind of major reform with education funding is going to be necessary. Having the government fund free "K-16" education is one possible solution--though maybe not the only one. Simply making student loans dischargeable in bankruptcy might be simpler and more cost-effective, though fraught with moral hazard. A deep subsidy program that makes college affordable, but not free, might be less expensive but could have its own issues, etc. But whatever the solution is, the present state of education finance is unsustainable.
It is also deeply offensive to American values. We pride ourselves on being a society in which individuals can go as far as their talents and hard work will take them, rather than have their life outcomes largely dictated by parental wealth and social class. We don't have that when access to a basic college degree--and, thus, living wage employment--requires working- and middle-class youth to borrow and pay back the equivalent of a home mortgage. And that's why today I am announcing my candidacy for president of mgoblog. Vote for me, and all your wildest dreams will come true.
It isn't for everyone. Some people will always choose a different path or philosophical approach to education outside of the state, free structure. That's why private education exists.
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Actually not only will you still be paying off your tuition, you can now pay someone else's as well! Yay theft!
If you are an extremely high-frequency speculation trader in the stock market, then yes, you will now be paying someone else's tuition. If you are not, then no, you won't.
Yay not understanding proposals!
Eh, doesn't change the immorality of theft.
I'm pretty sure large schools on the D1 level wont ever be "free". I think this would only apply to smaller community schools, cause well, you get what you pay for. It would ensure that a degree from the Michigans of the world would hold more weight (as they should).