Looks like the number of foreign athletes taking scholarship money away from home grown kids has surged in recent years. 2/3rds are in Division I schools.
I wouldn't dream of accusing lazy coaches who don't recruit well of using "hired guns" from other countries to win championships. I'm sure they are only accepting foreign athletes for the altruistic good of helping to diversify the student body..... :-)
Influx of foreigners presents new challenges for NCAA
www.usatoday.com/.../2008-10-01-foreign-influx_N.htm
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Lets use the Euro professional sports model....maximum of two foreign swimmers per team and they or their federation pay for the costs leaving what little scholorship dollars do exist to develop our own talent.
And for the record....only a little over 2% of the general student body (according to the article) is foriegn born (not counting illegal aliens of course) so the diversity argument doesn't fly.
I think the article made it quite obvious that diversity was not the goal.
Says Saum, the NCAA's director of amateur certification, "It's all about winning and losing. … We're always looking for an edge athletically, and there are only so many (players) at a certain position. If I need a 6-10 guy, there are only so many 6-10 guys around."
When people go cuckoo crazy over college sports, getting tattoos of their school 20+ years after graduation as an example..wink wink, schools are going to pull out the stops to win. If that means bringing in an even greater number of overseas athletes, then so be it. It's all about the win, after all.
Lets use the Euro professional sports model....maximum of two foreign swimmers per team and they or their federation pay for the costs leaving what little scholorship dollars do exist to develop our own talent.
And for the record....only a little over 2% of the general student body (according to the article) is foriegn born (not counting illegal aliens of course) so the diversity argument doesn't fly.
I think the article made it quite obvious that diversity was not the goal.
Says Saum, the NCAA's director of amateur certification, "It's all about winning and losing. … We're always looking for an edge athletically, and there are only so many (players) at a certain position. If I need a 6-10 guy, there are only so many 6-10 guys around."
When people go cuckoo crazy over college sports, getting tattoos of their school 20+ years after graduation as an example..wink wink, schools are going to pull out the stops to win. If that means bringing in an even greater number of overseas athletes, then so be it. It's all about the win, after all.
