What is the definition of a fully funded DI XC program, what schools are fully funded, and where can I find out more about what it means to be fully funded? How big an advantage do you think it is for a team to be fully funded?
What is the definition of a fully funded DI XC program, what schools are fully funded, and where can I find out more about what it means to be fully funded? How big an advantage do you think it is for a team to be fully funded?
It's based on the number of working scholarships a school has, though I don't know what the number is for DI.
Men- 12.6
Women- 18(?) there was talk of moving it over 20 a few yrs ago but I am not sure what happened with that.
A fully funded team is when their school funds the team's scholarships up to the NCAA limit. Many schools don't.
Its when a team has 12.6 scholarships for the entire track and field team. Some track and field teams chose to use most scholarships on distance runners, so they have good cross country teams, while others couldnt give a shit about it and dont give any money to distance and focus on sprinting/jumping/throwing. A lot of the small schools with good xc teams like portland, iona, and william & mary are not fully funded so they have less scholarships and their track teams are mostly distance runners.
A point of clarification on what is included in fully funded - its tuition, books and room & board. So a team could be less than fully funded but hand out say 15 full tuition scholarships (the 12.6 tuition, books and room & board would be more than 15 tuitions).
I saw the comment that William & Mary's men's team is not fully funded. Any idea how many scholarships they do have to offer?
If you are being recruited, ask that school if they are fully funded. Usually the big football schools are fully funded for all sports. But they don't have to be, so you have to ask. A lot of times the school has a Athletic Foundation that does sports fundraising and they fully fund all varsity sports. You might find that fact on the Athletic Foundation webpage.
But as someone already said, with T&F, they can choose to spread the money across all events, or they can put more $$ on distance and have a great XC team but maybe not many great field events athletes, or they may suck at XC and distance and give all the T&F $$ to the sprinters and jumpers, etc.
XC does not get its own $$ unless they dont have a T&F team, which doesnt happen. So XC gets a share of the 12.6 full scholarships for men, I thought it was 16 but someone else here says 18 for women.
So lets say a school is fully funded for 12.6 full scholarships. This is not a fixed monetary amount, it is the cost of sending 12.6 students to THAT school, regardless of what it actually costs. So for a state school. they get 12.6, it doesn't matter if the athletes are in state or out of state or what the cost actually is. A full ride at a private school costs a LOT more than an in-state full ride. Doesn't matter to the school, they get 12.6 full rides at THEIR school's cost, no matter what. Otherwise if it were a flat $$ amount, the state school would be able to get a lot more kids for the same money than the expensive private school. So parents tend to think in terms of $$ when are considering offers, but coaches think in terms of percentage of a full ride no matter how much that is.
They most commonly will offer you either a percent, say a 25% scholarship (of what YOU will pay, so in state or out of state, it is a different amount but the same percent) OR they will simplify it and say "Tuition and books" or they might say "we will offer you in-state tuition" when you live out of state. They can say it any way they want. It always comes off tuition and books first, then room and board if you get more than that.
Football is a Headcount sport, they all get full-rides. T&F is not, so they will offer you the percentage.
If a school is not fully funded in T&F, it just means they are ALLOWED by the NCAA to offer the equivalent of 12.6 full rides to be split among the men's T&F team but they can't afford it. Maybe they have 8 or something. They wont be able to fully leverage their offers compared to fully funded schools. But it does NOT mean that YOU won't get as good of an offer. Actually you might get a better offer because the less prestigious program that is NOT fully funded will be less attractive and competitive to get in to. So if you are not quite as elite as the top guys, a not fully funded program could still give you a nice offer. It won't be a top tier team but it could have a top guy or two and a great coach.
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