Schmick's Gloves
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- Nov 8, 2020
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The schools in other states have taken a lot of money from the ticket sales amd TV deals their football teams have earned and dumped that money in to their softball programs, building great facilities, hiring coaches from California who have ties to the club programs in California and recruiting budgets to entice California players
You partner that with the #1 school, athletically, in the state not even bothering to field a softball team and you see so much talent looking beyond the state's borders to continue play.
Also the sheer numbers of coaches and players from California is just too high for the 3 Power 5 softball programs in the state (and Stanford always being an outlier with as many out of state students and student athletes as home grown there)
And the sheer idiocy at USC, which has more National Titles in men's sports than any other school in the country and has recently made a push in women's sports to go after that school across town, not having a softball program at all.
But don't let a school like UCI, which is located in the city that the PGF National Championships holds their games and the CIF (HS) title games are also held, off the hook for not having a program. Or Pepperdine University, which has one of the greatest views from any college baseball stadium in the world on its campus to go with a baseball National Championship, who also doesn't have a softball program.
But none of that stuff changes the facts that the NCAA is holding their member schools accountable in their treatment of scholarship athletes the same as the paying students. If tuition is more for out of state students than in state students then out of state student athletes scholarships should be counted in a way that reflects that. Simply put, if an out of state student pays 2.8 times the tuition as an in state student, an out of state players scholarship should count as 2.8 towards the schools allotment. This would make schools either charge all students the same tuition or recruit more home grown players
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You partner that with the #1 school, athletically, in the state not even bothering to field a softball team and you see so much talent looking beyond the state's borders to continue play.
Also the sheer numbers of coaches and players from California is just too high for the 3 Power 5 softball programs in the state (and Stanford always being an outlier with as many out of state students and student athletes as home grown there)
And the sheer idiocy at USC, which has more National Titles in men's sports than any other school in the country and has recently made a push in women's sports to go after that school across town, not having a softball program at all.
But don't let a school like UCI, which is located in the city that the PGF National Championships holds their games and the CIF (HS) title games are also held, off the hook for not having a program. Or Pepperdine University, which has one of the greatest views from any college baseball stadium in the world on its campus to go with a baseball National Championship, who also doesn't have a softball program.
But none of that stuff changes the facts that the NCAA is holding their member schools accountable in their treatment of scholarship athletes the same as the paying students. If tuition is more for out of state students than in state students then out of state student athletes scholarships should be counted in a way that reflects that. Simply put, if an out of state student pays 2.8 times the tuition as an in state student, an out of state players scholarship should count as 2.8 towards the schools allotment. This would make schools either charge all students the same tuition or recruit more home grown players
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