Does wrestling get an increased number of scholarships?
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The scholarship number is by and large irrelevant at this point and the squad can be funded with some creative accounting one would think.
I am pretty sure with these new rules that you have as many scholarships as you have roster spots. I don’t think it matters what sport. If the roster cap is 20 guys we can give 20 full scholarships. You just have to have the money to do so. At least that is how I understand it.
This will only help PSU even more.
This will only help PSU even more.
Double post. My bad. App doesn’t seem to have a delete option. I’ll have to wait until I get to my laptop.
Rumor has it that there are schools that can’t afford 9.9 scholarships, let alone 15.
I've been trying to figure this out but all the reporting at the national level has not mentioned wrestling even though I suspect it will impact every sport in some way.
I’m happy that more young men and women will get to be college student athletes. In fact, I think schools should be able to give out as many scholarships as they want. I can’t see how there will be a lot of schools handing out 30 wrestling scholarships. There may be schools who drop wrestling, but it certainly would mean that the rich will continue to get richer.
This is not necessarily true. PSU wrestling will have to reduce its roster size to 30, from typically around 37.
And from what I've seen, it does not appear to be phased in -- meaning that there will likely be roster cuts instead of reduction thru graduation.
Apologies if I missed this, but will scholarships no longer be permitted to be split amongst the wrestlers?
Now there is a "roster" limit (not a scholarship limit). So, 30 wrestlers on the roster. The number of scholarships is therefore essentially limited to 30. ...I think.
If a school wanted to split a scholarship, it could as long as the roster is not greater than 30 or it could have 30 full scholarships.