B1G Announces Enhanced Benefits for Student-Athletes

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The Big Ten Conference announced Wednesday that it has notified the NCAA of initial recommendations designed to provide enhanced benefits for student-athletes that are members in good standing with their individual universities as part of the NCAA’s new autonomy governance structure.

For the past two years, the conference has publicly stated its desire to continue providing student-athletes with an unmatched educational and athletic experience.

The Big Ten will work to implement the following proposals through individual institutional action, conference-wide action or under the NCAA autonomy governance structure:

  • Cost of Education: Redefine full grant-in-aid to meet a student-athlete’s cost of education, as determined by the federal government.
  • Multi-Year Scholarships: Guarantee all scholarships. If a student-athlete is no longer able to compete, for whatever reason, there should be no impact on institutions’ commitment to deliver an undergraduate education.
  • Lifetime Educational Commitment: Ensure that scholarships are available for life. If a student-athlete leaves a university for a professional career before graduating, whether the career materializes, and regardless of its length, the scholarship will be honored after his or her playing days are complete.
  • Medical Insurance: Provide improved, consistent medical insurance for student-athletes.
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The SEC conference, meanwhile, has also announced their plans to enhance benefits for student athletes. Here are a few of the parameters agreed upon unanimously by SEC coaches and athletic directors:

  • All 4- and 5-star athletes will be provided with their choice of Lexus, Mercedes, or BMW automobile.
  • All 4- and 5-star athletes' mothers will either be provided a new house valued at no less than $250,000, be provided a job at the University, or both.
  • Academic standards: A new set of classes will be created for SEC athletes including but not limited to: Underwater Basket Weaving, Watching Paint Dry 101, and Dr. Seuss' Lit
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HuskerShark said:
The SEC conference, meanwhile, has also announced their plans to enhance benefits for student athletes. Here are a few of the parameters agreed upon unanimously by SEC coaches and athletic directors:

  • All 4- and 5-star athletes will be provided with their choice of Lexus, Mercedes, or BMW automobile.
  • All 4- and 5-star athletes' mothers will either be provided a new house valued at no less than $250,000, be provided a job at the University, or both.
  • Academic standards: A new set of classes will be created for SEC athletes including but not limited to: Underwater Basket Weaving, Watching Paint Dry 101, and Dr. Seuss' Lit
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That coursework might be too difficult. I mean Dr Seuss' literature is so abstract.

 
It'sNotAFakeID said:
HuskerShark said:
The SEC conference, meanwhile, has also announced their plans to enhance benefits for student athletes. Here are a few of the parameters agreed upon unanimously by SEC coaches and athletic directors:

  • All 4- and 5-star athletes will be provided with their choice of Lexus, Mercedes, or BMW automobile.
  • All 4- and 5-star athletes' mothers will either be provided a new house valued at no less than $250,000, be provided a job at the University, or both.
  • Academic standards: A new set of classes will be created for SEC athletes including but not limited to: Underwater Basket Weaving, Watching Paint Dry 101, and Dr. Seuss' Lit
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That coursework might be too difficult. I mean Dr Seuss' literature is so abstract.
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Nothing shows you how racists Dr. Seuss is, until you begin reading it to your own child.

 
I think this is a very good move for the Big 10. We need to be the front runner in offering recruits something tangible. Kids might be all google eyed over the SEC. But, Mom and Dad need to be sold these benefits.

 
Hedley Lamarr said:
Doesn't granting lifetime scholarships encourage students to leave college early
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If they're going to leave early, they're going to leave early. All this means is when they're done playing, they can go back and finish their degree

 
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