Go vs: no-go is differing opinions...

Go vs: no-go is differing opinions...
by DavidAddison (2018-05-30 06:56:10)

In reply to: I used this source posted by NDoggie78

But I definitely disagree on a couple of your points.

It would seem clear that internally sports are charged full value for their scholarships, because non-athlete need based money comes from different pools of money entirely, including donor based scholarship funds and presumably some small percentage of the endowment.

And I totally disagree that most scholarship athletes outside of football and basketball would’ve been admitted to ND anyway. The quality of students being turned away is amazing, and we are not just talking about bookworm dorks. I’m sure many of our athletes are smart and good or even great students. Did they all average 33-35 on ACT?

And those amazing students go on to great colleges. I'd

be very interested in supporting additional sports if the pool of students is likely to increase socio-economic diversity. The big help in my view is that the athletes go to ND (or another D-1 school) instead of a random third tier college they can afford (or no college at all).

Those other amazing students will be just fine.

Thank goodness you know what’s best for everyone

Silly kids with silly dreams, better off elsewhere.

Unless you want ND to enroll 15,000+, this is how it'll be. *

You're kind of making my point *

You're quibbling over another 25 spots not going to

deserving upper middle class white kids who will be fully capable of attending (Marquette, BC, Villanova, State U, etc.) and having successful careers thereafter. 25 out of the 12,000+ well-qualified applicants who don't get accepted.

My point is there will be thousands of well-qualified upper middle class white kids who don't get in regardless of whether ND adds a sport or two.