eb59
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Post by eb59 on Sept 29, 2018 12:21:39 GMT -5
Unfortunate, but it seems to me that Gtown basically does as little as is possible in every aspect of being a University and effectively has been successful at and will continue to pray to be able to hold onto its Top 25 US News Ranking!
I mean, I started this comparing Gtown to Top Notch D-1 Schools....but DFW makes a good point: "Former non-scholarship programs like Duquesne, Wagner, Robert Morris, St. Francis and the like are now offering up to 40 scholarships each, which adds more to what's out there. Not every one of these recruits is looking at schools like Georgetown, but if they pick off one or two a year, that's what counts.
FWIW, former MAAC opponent Duquesne got a $200,000 guarantee (plus free airfare and hotel for 100 players and staff) to play a game at Hawaii last week because they had the scholarships. (Final: a respectable 42-21.) They go back to Hawaii in 2022 and have scheduled Charlotte in 2021 and West Virginia in 2023, and that sells for recruits, as opposed to, well...Marist."
It just continues to be mind boggling that these little town Schools can find $$$ for Scholies and Proud Global Brand Gtown (made so heavily off athletics in the early 80's) is too poor to even possibly consider it! SAD
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Post by Problem of Dog on Sept 29, 2018 14:50:07 GMT -5
It just continues to be mind boggling that these little town Schools can find $$$ for Scholies and Proud Global Brand Gtown (made so heavily off athletics in the early 80's) is too poor to even possibly consider it! SAD Someone really needs to get a you a history book on Georgetown. You do not seem to have a very good grasp of the university.
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eb59
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Post by eb59 on Sept 29, 2018 16:25:36 GMT -5
What from above do you disagree with PoD?
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RusskyHoya
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Post by RusskyHoya on Oct 2, 2018 23:59:31 GMT -5
I thought the idea of recruiting kids who would get full need packages was an interesting out of the box thought, not sure its really practical. From what I understand of football recruiting, the team is limited to recruiting two classification of athletes: those whose family can afford full tuition and those who qualify for full federal financial aid. The middle of the road athlete cannot justify paying tens of thousands of dollars out of pocket when they can now receive a scholarship from a patriot league school or a full grant from an Ivy League school. The NJ-PA-MD-VA kids were in Georgetowns wheel house, but we are no longer competitive on financial grounds. Coaches are now forced to the southeast and Texas to find kinds in economic classes that make attending Georgetown feasible. There are situations where we have to reach on athletes Based on the cost of attendance. The scholarship equivalent money, which can be used to buy out the loan portion of players' need-based financial aid packages, is supposed to provide the 'trade space' within which you can get players who are not at either full cost-of-attendance levels of need or able-to-pay-sticker-price-without-batting-an-eye levels of wealth. But, of course, there's never been enough of it to fill all the gaps, and it's not going to be as good of an offer as a true full scholarship. Lol...buddy, this is not a Jack DeGoia problem. No one at this school is funding 60 scholarships. Nick Saban could become the president of the school and we're not funding 60 scholarships. Yeah... I've probably said to DFW more than once that the view from the Metroplex, where blowing $25 million on a high school football stadium is still considered a good use of public funds, is very different than the view from Healy 2... or any academic C-suite. With a very small handful of exceptions (Old Dominion may fell fit the bill, considering the size and relatively-untapped nature of its home market), I would regard betting big on a football program at this point as an act of strategic and administrative malpractice. Meanwhile, here's what our football aspirational peers - the Ivies - have been up to: Ivy League kickoff rules experiment reduced concussions by 68 percent, study says
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