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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I went to a very small, hard, expensive college. I couldn't swim the entire time because I had to work. In this state the largest university doesn't have a men's swim team.
In many other sports there has been a tremendous use of foreign students for decades. It has been argued that the Iranian revolution was in fact started by the huge number of Iranian young men here playing soccer for universities (I remember them on our streets in the time. Some were the best collegiate soccer players our country has ever seen) . They were able to see just how manipulative the US was in other nations' internal affairs. Okay now I've made everyone made at me again.
The guy who was (might still be) in charge of running investigations of foreign students coming to the states went to the same little college I went to. I would argue that the scholarships that go to foreign born volleyball players ensure a more harmful view to our notion of foreigners going to our schools with sports scholarships than do swimmers. Many schools get these guys to their schools, if they don't win, the guy looses everything. Many of these guys coem from Brazil. Many have very weak arguments against calling themselves professional volleyball players.
I went to a very small, hard, expensive college. I couldn't swim the entire time because I had to work. In this state the largest university doesn't have a men's swim team.
In many other sports there has been a tremendous use of foreign students for decades. It has been argued that the Iranian revolution was in fact started by the huge number of Iranian young men here playing soccer for universities (I remember them on our streets in the time. Some were the best collegiate soccer players our country has ever seen) . They were able to see just how manipulative the US was in other nations' internal affairs. Okay now I've made everyone made at me again.
The guy who was (might still be) in charge of running investigations of foreign students coming to the states went to the same little college I went to. I would argue that the scholarships that go to foreign born volleyball players ensure a more harmful view to our notion of foreigners going to our schools with sports scholarships than do swimmers. Many schools get these guys to their schools, if they don't win, the guy looses everything. Many of these guys coem from Brazil. Many have very weak arguments against calling themselves professional volleyball players.
