Money Grab at Thomas More?

[TAC]

Not football money. The Pioneer League is strictly non-scholarship.

 

Interesting. Maybe that's why he only lasted a year.

[gchs_uk9]

I was talking about...the patriot leauge.

 

The Patriot League started offering scholarships for football in 2012.

[TAC]

The Patriot League started offering scholarships for football in 2012.

Now that makes sense. He was a 2013 grad and does not come from a very wealthy family.

[gchs_uk9]

Now that makes sense. He was a 2013 grad and does not come from a very wealthy family.

 

My quote was about the Patriot League, which @plantmanky mentioned earlier, not the Pioneer League, which Morehead State is a part of. The Pioneer League DOES NOT give athletic scholarship. Perhaps plantman misspoke.

[plantmanky]

My quote was about the Patriot League, which @plantmanky mentioned earlier, not the Pioneer League, which Morehead State is a part of. The Pioneer League DOES NOT give athletic scholarship. Perhaps plantman misspoke.

 

Yep I did, thanks for clarifying.

[oldoc]

All Division 3 schools do this in all sports and the administration tells their coaches they have to do this. It is a big business and college coaches are salesmen.

[UK#1fanisback]

A lot of high school football players on visits at TMC today.

[Content1]

They are, as are nearly every other D3 school in America. Do you know Centre College has 21 athletic teams? As a comparison, Xavier has 16. Transy has 26. Oberlin College has 19. UC has 17. DePauw has 21.

 

This isn't a coincidence. D3 has as many teams as they do completely because of tuition intake.

 

You haven't stumbled onto some great revelation here HB, I promise you.

 

Thanks for the numbers MTGL and I couldn't agree more. And it's been going on since I played D3 football in the late 80's. My freshmen class was 60+ strong. I was 4th on a WR depth chart of 8. And would have been 3rd on a depth chart of 5 at DB. I enjoyed playing JV, our team won the conference championship and I made peace with hanging up the cleats after sustaining a couple concussions.

 

And I came home to get a degree from UC vs. paying off a rather large debt over many years armed with a small liberal arts degree. D3 schools, can and do provide "financial packages" based on merit, fafsa, and just how important the position you will play is.

 

Be happy HB , as I know you are, that your sons coaching staff set realistic expectations and boundaries regarding depth and numbers on the team. They are not the majority for the reasons already mentioned.

 

Note: it took me a year to pay off my loans while working full time and taking night classes. Tuition was $16k then and is up to $40k + at the same school now. Kids better make darn sure if they go the D3 route they graduate with a degree that will provide a very good ROI and not set them back financially for years to come!

[John Anthony]

This just in, not every kid is good enough to play D1 like they were told the past 4 years and still wanna play football after HS.

[frankdracman23]

This fall, Thomas More College welcomed the largest class ever in the history of the college.

 

There are currently 474 incoming fulltime, traditional students on campus.

 

That’s a 41 percent increase over the 2015 incoming class.

 

Since school began in early August, the Admissions office has been running the numbers and pouring through the archives.

 

“We knew we had a large incoming class, but all the facts and figures now point to the largest class – ever!” said Christopher Powers, PhD, Vice President of Enrollment Management.

 

Total fulltime, traditional enrollment is currently at 1118.

 

Overall headcount, which includes graduate, dual credit and adult students currently stands at 1964.

 

“People constantly ask the reason for the growth; it’s not just our great faculty, administration and students, I believe it’s because we are a values based institution that lives its mission,” according to Thomas More College President David A. Armstrong, J.D.

 

Thomas More College is a values-based liberal arts institution, one of 10 Catholic Diocesan colleges in the nation. Located in Crestview Hills, it was originally founded in 1921 by the Benedictine Sisters as Villa Madonna College.

 

Thomas More College is routinely named one of the best values in higher education by Money magazine’s Best College Buys issue and was recognized in 2015 and 2016 by PayScale as the number one college for return on investment in Greater Cincinnati and Kentucky.

 

Thomas More breaks enrollment records, welcomes largest incoming class in history of the college | NKyTribune