PDad wrote:Pale Rider wrote:Cutting players?...Heard that changed
Please be more specific - what change(s) did you hear?
NCAA bylaws regulate reductions in athletic awards, not the cutting of players from a team. Some conferences and schools have made changes that provide scholarship protections beyond NCAA bylaws.
IOW, being cut from a team doesn't necessarily mean they lose their athletic aid ($). I expect there are some benefits they'll lose if not a member of a team (e.g. trainers, tutors, etc).
Just things that Ive heard..My 'genetics' wont accept things that people have said...as in cuts, nets and masks...
All things people have told me, but I need verification.
I need it Ch and verse...Army did that to me...
Masks and nets make sense to me...I KNOW baseball doesn't require them but the dugouts are farther away and usually are really 'dug out'...Girls are used to masks so that isn't a show stopper neither...IMHO a foul or even a pitch to the face in the face is so easily prevented and if I were a coach, it'd be mandatory...period...
If Im not mistaken every FL player uses a batting mask...works out pretty dang good for the Gators huh? Just think what kind of investment a coach has in a kid vs one off the ole kisser?
Pitchers wearing masks has been argued ad nauseum, I am a proponent of that. Technology and players have evolved (better, faster, stronger) to the point that there's no such thing as a un-hittable pitcher, and the argument she shouldn't have thrown it there,or she should be able to field her position better, as shes loaded into the ambulance doesn't cut it with me...
As far as cutting rosters...It seems to me, a kid signed to be a student athlete playing ball...So if they don't play as well as the coach thought, breaks team 'rules' for conduct and / or doesn't meet academic requirements, wouldn't that be a breach of the 'contract'? Recently had a parent tell me his kid was getting a full ride (at a DII school) whether she played ball or not...based solely on an 'athletic offer'?...
Huh?... I think...no I KNOW hes been hitting the airplane glue