palaxoff wrote: ↑Fri Mar 13, 2020 8:52 am Saw a friend's post on FB about giving Seniors another year of Eligibility. He is kind of swaying me against it.
His reasoning is if you give seniors and extra year, you should give it to Freshmen, Sophomores and Juniors otherwise you are potentially making it harder for them to get a chance to shine ( his words) ...
Money. That's the key consideration. Scholarships for laxers, footballers, gymnasts, etc. Many schools have several hundred athletes on scholarship and those with lower endowments are going to be handicapped while the bigger schools would have no trouble meeting these goals. With so many colleges going out of business in recent years, this could well contribute to the closing of more schools.
While it is an honorable idea, I'm not sure schools want to fork out all the money needed to finance these scholarships.