Not a single American on full-ride scholarship at a British university

FWIW, I phrased this thread the way I did to show the inequities that an American kid has to face. As I have said before: Should an American kid have to compete with the rest of the world for a roster spot (let alone $$$) on an American college sports team?

Ask yourself this: does the current system have to change? I say it does because this is not a free and equal trade. It is one-way only. Review the below link before you answer.

https://gobulldogs.com/sports/womens-tennis/roster

US Congress has shown that NCAA is weak and vulnerable right now. That your local senator can lean on the NCAA to make changes/to put limits on number of foreign born on college teams.

Other countries do protectionism, why doesn't USA......in anything.

it's an outrage wrote:

FWIW, I phrased this thread the way I did to show the inequities that an American kid has to face. As I have said before: Should an American kid have to compete with the rest of the world for a roster spot (let alone $$$) on an American college sports team?

Ask yourself this: does the current system have to change? I say it does because this is not a free and equal trade. It is one-way only. Review the below link before you answer.

https://gobulldogs.com/sports/womens-tennis/roster

US Congress has shown that NCAA is weak and vulnerable right now. That your local senator can lean on the NCAA to make changes/to put limits on number of foreign born on college teams.

Other countries do protectionism, why doesn't USA......in anything.

The American South has been "stealing" industries, jobs, and sports teams from the North for over a hundred years by blatantly selling a docile ununionized workforce, low wages, tax breaks, and little regulation. First it was textiles, then furniture, then small manufactured goods, technology jobs, auto manufacturing, and most recently airplane manufacturing with Boeing. If the South were another country then Northerners would have invaded all over again. On top of that the North pays more in taxes than what they get back and the difference goes to the South. That's more of an "injustice" than a few foreigners on a track team. But even here the South has also been sending athletes to Northern public universities and taking the spots and scholarships of Northern students whose parents pay taxes to support those schools.

UK universities are academic focused.

None in Australia either. Where they don't have athletic scholarships or inter university competitions. Except for one yearly drunk fest

it's an outrage wrote:

walter j wrote:

I did 2 years at Cambridge without paying a penny or pence.

In what sport did they give you that full-ride scholarship?

The scholarship was not tied to sports.

it's an outrage wrote:

The title speaks for itself. 617 Brits are on scholly at American universities....in T&F alone. But not a single American on scholly at any British university. That is 617 Americans who have little or no experience in the American college athletic scene. Americans have to compete against the entire world for an American college roster spot (let alone financial consideration), but the rest of the world doesn't have to compete with Britons for a British university roster spot = Britons only.

How is this xenophobia when all it is is inherent fairness? Fairly talented American kids are dropping the sport (they are so discouraged they are dropping ALL sports) because they have to work their way through college. Also, only the well-heeled American has the luxury of walking on....even if he can get a roster spot at U. Central Arkansas.

Where is the reciprocal?

Also 0 GB students on full athletic scholarships in GB. US kids can run for GB colleges, yet they do not. Would probably cost them less than a partial scholarship for a US college.

4:0x US kids are not having their places taken by foreigners.

That is one seriously international team. One American on the roster. It is an injustice and a sign of the fact that we have the only seriously competitive college athletic program in the world, and the only one where you really could use a scholarship. Post-secondary education is nearly free elsewhere. Maybe the solution would be to make our post-secondary education free and then we wouldn't need athletic scholarships and we'd have a much bigger proportion of the population finishing college.

College sports are a waste of money and athletic scholarships a travesty. Only academic scholarships should exist and even then they should only be for the very gifted. Much prefer the Australian system where sports are separate from universities. Most of our universities are state run so Australians would be very unimpressed if Becky or Timmy that can run fast laps got a free university education despite being academically mediocre.

it's an outrage wrote:

The title speaks for itself. 617 Brits are on scholly at American universities....in T&F alone. But not a single American on scholly at any British university. That is 617 Americans who have little or no experience in the American college athletic scene. Americans have to compete against the entire world for an American college roster spot (let alone financial consideration), but the rest of the world doesn't have to compete with Britons for a British university roster spot = Britons only.

How is this xenophobia when all it is is inherent fairness? Fairly talented American kids are dropping the sport (they are so discouraged they are dropping ALL sports) because they have to work their way through college. Also, only the well-heeled American has the luxury of walking on....even if he can get a roster spot at U. Central Arkansas.

Where is the reciprocal?

Any chance our kids are threatened by the shock of higher academic standards of achievement?

Agreed All American award for foreign athletes is ridiculous.

it's an outrage wrote:

The title speaks for itself. 617 Brits are on scholly at American universities....in T&F alone. But not a single American on scholly at any British university. That is 617 Americans who have little or no experience in the American college athletic scene. Americans have to compete against the entire world for an American college roster spot (let alone financial consideration), but the rest of the world doesn't have to compete with Britons for a British university roster spot = Britons only.

How is this xenophobia when all it is is inherent fairness? Fairly talented American kids are dropping the sport (they are so discouraged they are dropping ALL sports) because they have to work their way through college. Also, only the well-heeled American has the luxury of walking on....even if he can get a roster spot at U. Central Arkansas.

Where is the reciprocal?

Outrage for idiots. College sports in the UK are not funded like college sports in the US. UK college sports are more like club-level sports at US colleges.

Reading through this thread, it's apparent that there is a general lack of knowledge about the world outside our borders. Our education system must really suck.