Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Sun May 09, 2021 12:43 pm
44WeWantMore wrote: ↑Sun May 09, 2021 12:16 pm
Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Sun May 09, 2021 11:56 am
primitiveskills wrote: ↑Sun May 09, 2021 11:48 am
Wheels wrote: ↑Sun May 09, 2021 11:39 am
keno in reno wrote: ↑Sun May 09, 2021 12:50 am
Why will Milliman have a lot more flexibility with the bonus year vs. all the other teams?
The way scholarships work favors universities that can award academic or need-based aid students first before using athletic scholarships (non-revenue sports only...basketball and football are full scholarships). Programs that can't afford to fundraise merit or need-based scholarships will have to stick to the 12.6 maximum athletic scholarships. Milliman will likely have more ability to save his 12.6 athletic scholarships on incoming or regular 4-year players. He'll probably be able to have many bonus year players qualify for Hop's merit and need-based scholarships (hence Bloomberg's Billions...his goal is to make Hop tuition free, if I'm not mistaken). Basically, it's what the Ivies do because "technically," they don't offer any athletic scholarships. All Ivy players receive merit or need-based scholarships. Yet the Ivies won't allow players to play beyond 4 years, so they can't do what I think Milliman will be able to do.
I can't imagine he's going to carry 56 players in the coming years. I can imagine he will want some of the current players to use their bonus year. I think it means he will be able really concentrate talent through the 2023 season. I bet he will.
It will be inetersting to see how much attrition there will be out of the Ivies this year. Not only the 4+ year guys, but all the other players who were screwed by the Ivy League leaving their cancellation decision so late that they had no options.
My guess is a lot of kids will be hitting the exits from the Ivy League. Not sure how they will field teams next year.
I heard all the Yale starters are leaving.
That sounds to me like your source was exaggerating to make a point. I would not be surprised if a couple do, and if those couple were real difference-makers. But all? The Ivies pretty much all followed the same protocol. AFAIK, Dartmouth and UPenn each played one game against a D-III school, and only Brown played a single D-I game. So why transfer to another Ivy? If they were starters, would they really consider a NESCAC team? With all due respect to JHU and Duke, they are fine institutions, but they are not Yale. Maybe a devout Catholic might find Georgetown, Loyola, or ND comfortable if disillusioned with Yale. Maybe one or two homesick folks would seek UMD, UVA, or Rutgers. Maybe a specific major might be attractive at another destination. But all the starters?
I was making fun of the wild speculation. I also read this morning that all the Ivy League players are on need based aid or
merit scholarships. Kids have transferred from Ivy schools off and on for years for a variety of reasons. Don’t expect that to change.
By definition, the Ivy League cannot offer merit scholarships. HYP has the most generous need-based aid in the land, which has been matched only by Stanford. So, Yale need-based aid easily beats Duke's need-based aid, for example. Yes, Duke does also offer merit aid, but again, the Ivy League does not. (Footnote, Cornell used to offer a wink-wink merit scholarship which they claim did not count for purposes of Ivy membership, so maybe it was offered thru its Contract Colleges?)
With Bloomberg's funding, Hopkins has moved its need-based aid into that generous HYP class. The other Ivies, while still generous in comparison to many other private colleges, are a level $$ down from HYP.
That said, how many LAX players at this level actually qualify for need-based aid?