December 9th, 2009 at 3:10 AM ^
is that it does not matter what else you are recruited to play. If you have any scholarship and play football, then your scholarship counts against football.
December 9th, 2009 at 9:24 AM ^
I checked with a former track team member and was told that the scholarship would count against the football team.
December 9th, 2009 at 10:05 AM ^
So, in that instance, does that athlete effectively take up two scholarships, one in each sport? Or does the scholarship only count for the higher revenue generating sport?
December 9th, 2009 at 10:17 AM ^
One scholarship is taken up by the higher revenue generating sport. This is why many football players participate in indoor track. It does not hurt track scholarships.
December 9th, 2009 at 10:42 AM ^
Then why are football players sometimes recruited with track scholarships? I think Florida or Miami tried this with one of our Floridian ninja recruits. If they were on track scholarship could they practice with the football team as long as they didn't play in games?
December 9th, 2009 at 11:36 AM ^
Even if the person was not recruited by the football team as soon as they play in a game their scholarship counts towards football. This is the head count sports issue being discussed.
December 9th, 2009 at 10:33 AM ^
Edit: question answered in another thread. Football is a head count sport. Whether the athlete receives $1 or a full-ride, it counts as 1 of 85.
December 9th, 2009 at 10:40 AM ^
No, this comment should answer your question. Skip to the part where he talks about football being a headcount sport. http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/early-enrollessclass-size-solved#comment-31…
December 9th, 2009 at 10:39 AM ^
Yeah, Martavious Odoms was supposedly offered a track scholarship to Miami in order to get him on campus and play football.
December 9th, 2009 at 7:12 PM ^
So what happened to the ash commit?
December 9th, 2009 at 7:16 PM ^
Ash has not committed yet.
December 10th, 2009 at 12:05 PM ^
the latest on the D recruit from Fla a knowledge poster is saying on Scout
Still hearing blue for this particular guy that has not changed. Date may have but from what im hearing his intentions have not. As i said before it was passed on to me that he thought he wanted to announce on wed, today. But it was not 100%. Will keep you posted.... I think (Ash) he favored Florida State and with Bowden getting forced out, I think he is looking at Michigan. Even though he made a silent verball to WVU