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Gnome is a UF undergraduate alum. That is a fact. He did attend UM law school but ended up in an alternate career. He hates UM. I enjoy reading the rebuttal posts, but do keep the gnome on ignore.

Just want to show how the gnome is either a lair or just plain dumb. Here is the direct quote: "The NCAA can and will step in as soon as it is obvious that the “merit-based scholarship” is really just an additional scholarship meant to get around the 11.7 limit." That is a direct quote from...

Gnome says that "everything counts against the 11.7 scholarships". I refute him and show that financial aid, academic, diversity and lottery funds do not and he backtracks. Most important part of my post "no Vanderbilt baseball player has paid tuition since they instituted Operation...

As usual the Gnome is wrong. Academic scholarships do not count against the 11.7. Moreover, not a single Vanderbilt player has incurred any debt or paid any tuition since Vanderbilt funded Operation Vanderbilt. HUGE advantage. "Division I institutions provide the most athletic scholarships...

Georgetown cannot fund 85 football scholarships, so they assign a certain number of merit-based scholarships to football players (that possess the requisite grades). Georgetown has a small endowment, but it has a plethora of endowed scholarships. My freshman year we had 20 players on academic...

UM could definitively have a merit-based scholarship for students who excel in both the classroom and the athletic arena. A baseball player from Hialeah applies and shows family income of less than a certain amount, they can apply for one of these "endowed" scholarships. The donor who endowed...

Over the past 10-years TCU and Vanderbilt performed better than UM. Vanderbilt's non-baseball aid provides it with a sizable advantage, however. Am making an assumption here, but if they publicly cite that 75% of all students receive financial aid then one can assume that, at minimum, 75% of...

Really enjoying Peter Gibbons' posts and hope that they do not ban him. Am assuming that he is arguing with either a orangutan or a gnome. Schools can offer as many merit-based, academic related scholarships as the want. If that student is a male athlete then they have to make sure that there...

We need to endow 7 merit-based, academic scholarships for baseball and another 7 for women's sports. Athletes are not always the greatest students, though. You may be able to stipulate "good grades, need for financial aid and athletic prowess." Copy Vanderbilt...

The Gnome

We have plenty of money and have excellent donors. The problem is that the vast majority of UM's donors despise the football team. There is a lot of Shalala hate on this Board, but she protected the football program as best she could. Our richest donors (well over 80% of them) love the...

You are completely right, but please note that you are arguing with a chimpanzee. That gnome is dumber than dirt! You are asking 15.3 players on the team to pay $39,343 in additional tuition per year. If these players choose to attend a Private University, they are looking at $157,372 in...

Providence's coach reminds me of a young York. Yale's coach is tremendous. Yale has to adhere to the Index, as do all Ivys, which makes recruiting impossible. Quinnipac's coach is great, but this school cheats like "caine" during recruiting. The Powers of hockey will have them barred at some...

The gnome is a complete fool and a GATOR..... Teams can fund 11.7 scholarships, leaving 15.3 scholarships that players have to fund on their own. UM players have to fund $699,577 versus $97,629 for either UF or FSU. USC still dominated at 17 scholarships, and still made it to Omaha at 13...

BC has a ton of talent this year. 11-18 is beyond worrisome.... Even Morris had winning records his final two seasons. Morris' last two teams improved markedly over the latter half of both seasons. Hopefully this was a "blip" for York. He did make the 'Frozen Four' four years ago... I do...

Am actually a fan of BC hockey and watch a lot of their games. The last two years have been debacles. York may be done.....

BC debuts new baseball field on Brighton Campus Google the above and they have some videos. BC's new stadium is terrible. Looks like a high school field. Very few schools will ever expend substantial amounts into their baseball programs. There are zero profitable NCAA baseball programs at...

The majority of the new stadiums being built are mirroring minor league parks. UM was smart in maintaining Mark Light small and family friendly. From 1979 to 1986, my parents treated Mark Light like a day care center. They would drop us off and we would run around the stadium for 3 hours with...

Mississippi State, LSU and the Gamecocks have by far the best stadiums. We need a new Ron Fraser building and maybe permanent bleachers instead of the ones that we have now. $20M turns 'Mark Light' into a premier facility. We also do not compete with Miss State for recruits. Am not too...

Am 100% certain that Missouri State has better facilities than UM. No doubt. UM, however, needs to worry about the schools it competes with for recruits; mainly, FSU and UF. More importantly, UM needs to find a way to recoup the players it loses each year on the tuition differential ($45,724...