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And the case of a friend of mine who was recruited for football but whose
academics weren't strong enough? He spent a year at the Naval Academy
Preparatory School, which the Navy paid for, and then came here once his
grades were up. In fact, A LOT of our athletes did just the same thing.
I see Sean's arguement that an appointment isn't really an athletic
scholarship. It is, however, a process similar to what someone else (I
apoligize for forgetting who it was) described earlier. A
student-athlete receives financial aid because his grades are good, and
just maybe a bit because he can run with a football rather well.
Only in some cases the grades aren't there...
I agree that the service commitment is a rather large price to pay,
unless you're like me and plan to make a career of it. There has to be
some motivation other than athletics behind one's choice to accept an
appointment to a service academy, but how much else is a good question. I
have athlete friends who had no idea what they were getting into when
they arrived.
-Brian Sprague
P.S. Another way you make a commitment: You get stuck here on Friday nights
like I am now.
BTW, this is getting away from hockey, and it just started as a simple
listing of who offers athletic scholarships and who doesn't. Officially,
Sean is right in saying that these schools are not allowed to do so.
However, when a student is awarded financial aid, it doesn't necessarily
HAVE TO be chalked up as an athletic scholarship... It's a big gray
area, I can see. Can we leave it at that?
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