Academic bonuses for athletes, $5,980 a year

[SUDadx2]

Schools can pay out academic bonuses of up to $5,980 annually per athlete for academic progress.

22 FBS schools plan to provide academic bonuses to athletes - Sports Illustrated

Nine of the schools are in the SEC, the richest conference in the country.

www.si.com

NCAA Division I Schools To Start Paying Athletes for Academic Performance

University of Nebraska, University of Minnesota, and WVU all announced plans to start paying their athletes for academic performance next school year.

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Where does Syracuse Athletics stand on this issue?

 

[javadoc]

Schools can pay out academic bonuses of up to $5,980 annually per athlete for academic progress.

22 FBS schools plan to provide academic bonuses to athletes - Sports Illustrated

Nine of the schools are in the SEC, the richest conference in the country.

www.si.com

NCAA Division I Schools To Start Paying Athletes for Academic Performance

University of Nebraska, University of Minnesota, and WVU all announced plans to start paying their athletes for academic performance next school year.

swimswam.com

Where does Syracuse Athletics stand on this issue?

That's not going to encourage grade inflation and fraud, no. Shocked, shocked! I say.

 

[Dick_in_MI]

Shouldn’t the “performing well” thing be part of the student-athlete’s motivation to come away from their college years with a degree? You are already getting a free ride and now you have to be paid on top of it to do what you are supposed to do?

All bigtime sports schools have their version of what used to be called “basket weaving” courses. Sometimes, players are encouraged to take them and steer clear of more demanding majors. We have had a few former players who were excellent students and told of their own experience where coaches discouraged their interest in highly technical majors.

Anyway, for those schools that have a high incidence of “basket weaving” majors, isn’t this just another way of paying players for doing something that 1)they are already supposed to do, and 2) getting paid for minimal effort in those majors where minimal effort is already part of the setup?

 

[blizz]

Gimme an L!

L!

Gimme an AH SOOT!

AWWE! SOOT! SOOT! SOOT!

What's that spell?!

LAWSUIT!!!

 

[javadoc]

Shouldn’t the “performing well” thing be part of the student-athlete’s motivation to come away from their college years with a degree? You are already getting a free ride and now you have to be paid on top of it to do what you are supposed to do?

All bigtime sports schools have their version of what used to be called “basket weaving” courses. Sometimes, players are encouraged to take them and steer clear of more demanding majors. We have had a few former players who were excellent students and told of their own experience where coaches discouraged their interest in highly technical majors.

Anyway, for those schools that have a high incidence of “basket weaving” majors, isn’t this just another way of paying players for doing something that 1)they are already supposed to do, and 2) getting paid for minimal effort in those majors where minimal effort is already part of the setup?

Kids need a way to make pizza money. Let them get a job on campus, or at a local business!

Booster: I'll give you a six-figure job wiping tables at my restaurant.

The money here might as well be high-temperature hydrogen gas. It's going to leak through every aperture in existence, including the ones you don't know about yet.

 

[Cheriehoop]

Kids need a way to make pizza money. Let them get a job on campus, or at a local business!

Booster: I'll give you a six-figure job wiping tables at my restaurant.

The money here might as well be high-temperature hydrogen gas. It's going to leak through every aperture in existence, including the ones you don't know about yet.

Yup they used to do that years ago. Pearl worked at a company that did business with mine way back when. There used to be players all over who had ‘jobs’. The NCAA I believe stopped it for college athletes for the very reasons you noted - many were getting good bucks and bonuses for really no show jobs. Kids in college used to have local ‘host’ families too for home cooked meals, form local relationships etc and the NCAA stopped that because of it being subject to abuse by boosters.

 

[ORRange]

Schools can pay out academic bonuses of up to $5,980 annually per athlete for academic progress.

22 FBS schools plan to provide academic bonuses to athletes - Sports Illustrated

Nine of the schools are in the SEC, the richest conference in the country.

www.si.com

NCAA Division I Schools To Start Paying Athletes for Academic Performance

University of Nebraska, University of Minnesota, and WVU all announced plans to start paying their athletes for academic performance next school year.

swimswam.com

Where does Syracuse Athletics stand on this issue?

Syracuse is not on the list. So they are behind the ball. This is not NIL, it's up to the school. So let's not see the response. "Pony up". Like I said before, we go head to head against some of the teams on the list so pony up SU. Haha fat chance.

 

[All4SU]

Does North Carolina get to do this too? That seems a bit of a stretch.

 

[baggerbob]

Does North Carolina get to do this too? That seems a bit of a stretch.

They will just create another major of some kind with no show classes. Because it's not in the NCAA's wheelhouse.

 

[CuseLegacy]

Coaches can get bonuses for the APR of their team. Perhaps it would make more sense to give the money to the student athletes.

 

[AngryOtto]

I’m okay with academic bonuses but it should be on excelling in the classroom not progressing. If they make academic honor roll they get a bonuses. Encourages them to get great grades and excel. Coach only get bonuses when they do something special not just coach their team.

 

[Cuse12]

All of this NLI stuff will be met with the same narrative of “oh let’s see how fraudulent this gets”. And it probably will be fraudulent to a point. Most will be within the guidelines but there will always be outliers.

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

That's not going to encourage grade inflation and fraud, no. Shocked, shocked! I say.

Rutgers and UNC wheelhouse. Somewhere, Dexter Manley wishes he could read this.

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

I’m okay with academic bonuses but it should be on excelling in the classroom not progressing. If they make academic honor roll they get a bonuses. Encourages them to get great grades and excel. Coach only get bonuses when they do something special not just coach their team.

Encourages payments to teachers to grade inflate, or workplace threats if they don't. Not sure why we are giving bonuses for kids doing what they should.

 

[All4SU]

Encourages payments to teachers to grade inflate, or workplace threats if they don't. Not sure why we are giving bonuses for kids doing what they should.

Yeah, I thought the whole idea was to make sure that students and student athletes were treated the same. Will regular students get money for good grades?

 

[Ozone!]

That's not going to encourage grade inflation and fraud, no. Shocked, shocked! I say.

It’s a good thing there was no current academic fraud and grade inflation prior to this, lol

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

It’s a good thing there was no current academic fraud and grade inflation prior to this, lol

So let's reward and normalize it.

 

[SUDadx2]

I share all of the concerns regarding the potential for abuse. But the cow is already out of the barn. The NCAA has deemed this legal and 25 DI schools are already handing out the cash, including three ACC schools not named Syracuse.

Does Syracuse get on board or do the Orange forfeit another recruiting advantage to their opponents?

 

[dollarbill44]

All of this NLI stuff will be met with the same narrative of “oh let’s see how fraudulent this gets”. And it probably will be fraudulent to a point. Most will be within the guidelines but there will always be outliers.

It's already gone well beyond what was envisioned. Anyone who didn't see this wasn't really thinking.

 

[PhatOrange]

I think this is great.

 

[Cheriehoop]

It’s a good thing there was no current academic fraud and grade inflation prior to this, lol

Better to ‘improve’ it and tie it to add an immediate cash return or loss for the athlete.

 

[javadoc]

I share all of the concerns regarding the potential for abuse. But the cow is already out of the barn. The NCAA has deemed this legal and 25 DI schools are already handing out the cash, including three ACC schools not named Syracuse.

Does Syracuse get on board or do the Orange forfeit another recruiting advantage to their opponents?

At some point you have to decide if you want to keep playing the game. And I don't mean football.

Just wait til the "$6,000 per year stipend for not getting arrested" is announced by the SEC.

(I believe a case could be made to have some form of incentive in the first year, while some students are forming good study and work habits, especially if they come from a background where that was lacking. But to continue to pay beyond that? I don't even pay my middle schooler to get good grades. I'm at the point now where, if it means "forfeiting a recruiting advantage" and it has a material effect, so be it. This is ridiculous. I can do without college football.)

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

I would rather set a stipend and deduct from it for not getting good grades, etc.

 

[All4SU]

I think the stipend should be paid by the student athletes who fail to get good grades.

 

[AngryOtto]

The ncaa is inept. Congress will not do anything to regulate. Maybe the P5 break off and create standard rules for all teams. It may eventually happen because if not only a very small number of schools will be able to compete. Once this happens people may not watch which will affect tv revenue.