Awesome. Lawrence is a great receiver! Congrats to him. Campbellsville has a super coaching and recruiting staff, and a nice campus. It will be a nice environment to play in. They will have a real good future, they signed 56 players.[/Q::eek:

Congrats to Chad he should do very well there!

I'd be surprised if it's covering 100%. NAIA splits them up between a lot of players.

 

can someone clarify? - I was under the impression that NAIA schools do not offer sports scholarships, that any financial assistance was need based. any info?

Congrats to Chad and I wish him the best!!!

NAIA can offer full athletic scholarships.

can someone clarify? - I was under the impression that NAIA schools do not offer sports scholarships, that any financial assistance was need based. any info?

 

You are talking about D3.

Congrats Mr. Lawrence

Edited March 1, 201115 yr by mudruds1136
Wrong quote

I believe I have my numbers correct. NAIA can offer 25 full scholarships; while NCAA D I can offer 85, NCAA IAA can offer

65, NCAA D II can offer 37. NCAA D III can only offer need based or academic scholarships. All schools take need-based and academic money first (even NCAA D I), then fill in rest with football scholarships. NAIA and NCAA D II schools rarely offer more than 25% scholarship for football, which allows them to offer money to 100-125 kids. Most kids at NAIA and D II schools are lucky to get 50% scholarship money (athletic and academic combined), then pay the rest with student loans, parent loans, etc. One reason you see some really good athletes go to D III schools is that if they are good stdents then D III schools can often get more total scholarship money with out athletic scholarships than NAIA or D II schools can offerwith football scholarships.

NAIA can offer full athletic scholarships.

 

Very rarely do they however.

 

If history is any indication they will end up with somewhere between 65- 80 "signees" in their Fresman class. That is not uncommon for NAIA and D3 type schools to bring in very large Freshman classes. The reality is that at many of the small schools Football is a big revenue generator, but not in the same sense that it is at D1 schools lIke UK or U of L.

 

If you look at this way, if the average Tuition Room and Board is around $20,000. And if they give the equivelent to 12 full scholarships (out of 24 total for the program) that leaves around 65 full tuitions coming in. If each of those 65 get an average of $6000.00 in "other" financial aid. That still brings in over $900,000 dollars of revenue to the school. ( 65 * $14,000). My guess is that my numbers are very conservative, I would guess that it is more like a $1,000,000 in revenue that is generated by the incoming Football players.

 

One of the key items to look at is what percentage of that class traditionally comes back for their Sophomore year. If that number is not at least 50% you might want to find out why.

 

Very good post. Hopefully it won't go ignored. Not in the Lawrence case as I don't know his offer, but as a general statement.

Congrats to Chad, my son played against him in an all-star game this year and I thought he was a very good player, very poised adn confident.

My understanding on DI scholarships is that they are full scholarships by NCAA rules. Only IAA and below can use equivalents (partials).

The more money your parents make the less athletic scholarship money you recieve in NAIA.