{"id":805,"date":"2010-07-21T13:28:17","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T19:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/\/?p=805"},"modified":"2010-07-21T13:28:17","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T19:28:17","slug":"the-athletic-academic-connection-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/the-athletic-academic-connection-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Athletic-Academic Connection: Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good Grades = More Scholarship Opportunities<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The NCAA has spent the past twenty-five years creating recruiting rules for\u00a0four specific purposes:\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Reaching higher for better grades is in your best interest.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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  1. To create a level playing field among the three divisions<\/li>\n
  2. To react to rules abuses by member institutions and coaches<\/li>\n
  3. To ease the pressure placed on prospects by coaches<\/li>\n
  4. To improve the academic responsibility and raise the graduation rate of its student-athletes<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    A little history, if you will.\u00a0 There was a time when athletes at many colleges were only required to carry and pass a bare minimum number of hours to remain eligible to participate in athletics.\u00a0 They needed to have taken and earned passing grades for as few as nine hours per semester.\u00a0 With the exception of the most stringent academic institutions, there existed few academic requirements for athletes, including the type classes athletes were required to pass.\u00a0 In the old days, college athletes did not have to demonstrate progress toward attaining a degree to play.<\/em><\/p>\n

    Flash forward to the present day.\u00a0 Firm restrictions are now ensconced in the NCAA which indelibly connect an athlete to academics in both high school and college, legitimizing the term student-athlete.\u00a0 The bottom line?\u00a0 At some point, to become a college athlete, you must study and produce grades to play.<\/p>\n

    On the front end of recruiting, prospects must meet strict academic requirements to become eligible to participate in NCAA Division I and II as a college freshman.\u00a0 While initial eligibility rules governing the NAIA and NJCAA affiliated schools are not as limiting for prospects, they too have raise their academic requirements over the years.\u00a0 Knowing these requirements as a freshman in high school is essential because getting and staying on the correct academic path is necessary to eventually qualify to play college sports.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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    More college doors are opened through good grades than athletic stats.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    On the back side of recruiting, much has happened to athletic programs which have squeezed them into a corner.\u00a0 On one side are the NCAA initial eligibility and ongoing academic requirements which must be met or exceeded for student-athletes to become and remain eligible.\u00a0 On another side are the limits on scholarships permitted per sport by the NCAA.\u00a0 And, finally, there are budgetary constraints which individual institutions place on their athletic departments and coaches.\u00a0<\/p>\n

    Put all this together and the ideal situation for an NCAA coach is to find, evaluate and recruit prospects with great high school academic records (and some need-based federal money) \u2013 records which will earn the student-athlete a lot of free money and allow the coach to insert a minimal amount of his or her athletic scholarship money to help make college affordable for the prospect and parents.<\/p>\n

    In short, the higher the grades and test scores a prospect delivers, the less money an NCAA coach has to fork out in scholarship aid.\u00a0 Therefore, the better your grades, the more coaches which will, and can, be attracted to you as a prospect.\u00a0 Higher grades, more coaches.\u00a0 Lower grades, fewer coaches.\u00a0 It\u2019s really as simple as that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Good Grades = More Scholarship Opportunities The NCAA has spent the past twenty-five years creating recruiting rules for\u00a0four specific purposes:\u00a0 To create a level playing field among the three divisions To react to rules abuses by member institutions and coaches To ease the pressure placed on prospects by coaches To improve the academic responsibility and … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}