College coach lies to me about money

Be grateful it's not 25k

NLI is athletic which is all your coach controls. You signed so you are stuck for a year.

You didn't get scammed...but you were extremely naive in not doing the due dilligence to find out what you would actually be paying.

Chalk this one up to a life lesson: always do your own research, especially when someone (in this case, your coach) has something to gain by your naivete.

Find the emails from the coach showing where he states your total costs.

Have your parents forward the emails to his Compliance office and his AD.

Administrators are afraid of parents so they will cave and cover the costs, and probably fire the coach for doing his job so poorly.

Going to college/university is like buying a car. You never know how much is going to cost until you get a quote in writing from the salesman with all the taxes and their fees added onto the advertised price.

Let that be a life lesson for you.

Some of you guys like to do this to kids knowing that they will take you seriously. Sure they are still in high school where their parents can get things done. You shouldn't encourage this kid to get himself booted from the team.

paper trail wrote:

Find the emails from the coach showing where he states your total costs.

Have your parents forward the emails to his Compliance office and his AD.

Administrators are afraid of parents so they will cave and cover the costs, and probably fire the coach for doing his job so poorly.

That's the way to do it.

Start a lawsuit and settle for a gazillon $$$.

You are set for live and never have to work again.

THIS is the American Dream in action!

He has no control over what the cost for you is outside of your athletic scholarship. Your financial aid department could have given you less academic scholarship because you received some athletic scholarship. It happens all of the time. As long as he gave you what he said he was going to that is all that he is able to do.

Actually, the NLI is the offer. The OP signed it. The school would be in breach next fall if they provide less than what the OP agreed to.

Scholar Expert wrote:

Actually, the NLI is the offer. The OP signed it. The school would be in breach next fall if they provide less than what the OP agreed to.

The NLI was for a certain amount, the OP is receiving that amount... Where the confusion came was the coach or the athlete didn't do their math correctly to find out how much was left to pay. What could have happened is the OP's major could have an extra couple thousand in fees on top of the regular tuition, this is likely the case. The coach offered a certain amount of money, and that amount is being honored.

My guess is this is an honest mistake. I was the head coach at a school that did not stack scholarships (meaning you choose between and athletic or academic but you could not receive both) that was easy for The coach to figure out.

Example:

Tuition, room, meals and fees 30,000.00

Athletic scholarship 12,000.00

Athlete pays 18,000.00 plus books and the occasional lab fee

* note: if you have any federal assistance FAFSA - deduct that from your total owed

Your situation for the coach is a little more difficult. I also coached at a school that stacked scholarships. This is where a coach can make honest mistakes (probably what happened in your case) by trying to be too helpful. He/she most likely projected your academic scholarship to be a certain amount and it appears he was wrong. It would be best practice for a coach to state this is your athletic scholarship and that is what I control, what you receive via academic scholarship will come from admissions and you can refer to them for that amount.

If the 5,000.00 is too much for you to pay and you have decided if you are required to pay that you will not be able to attend college ask your coach for a release and explain why you want to release and back it up with emails. most likely he would release you. If not, take it to the athletic director to get a release if that is what you want

Good luck

did i het scammed? wrote:

... When I spoke to my coach on the phone before I signed he led me to believe that the total cost would be about 8k a year .... What should I do?

* Do you have an email or anything in writing staying "that the total cost would be about 8k a year"? If so, that would be good proof.

* If you ask your coach now, would he agree with you that he alluded to the total cost being about 8k a year?

In any case, go to your financial aid office, and tell them what your coach represented to you that the total cost would be about $8k a year, and that you reasonably relied on your coach's representation and that you enrolled in school. Thus, you need to get another $5k a year in financial aid or you will have to drop out of school, because you can't afford to go there.

Confusion is the correct term. There can't be a broken contract until next fall. The only agreement is the NLI and that is for athletic aid. Everything else is just an estimate. The OP is stuck for a year.

You didn't get scammed. But you will be a good candidate for scamming throughout your life if you don't make yourself responsible for readily available information.

You didn't know how much tuition, room and board was at the school you were signing with? That is 100% ON YOU.

You did't get scammed dude. All our guys sleep in altitude tents in the woods behind Lee dorm, so there is no need to pay board.

did i het scammed? wrote:

I recently signed my NLI to a small D2 school in the northwest. They make it to nationals almost every year and offered me a small athletic scholarship so I accepted. When I spoke to my coach on the phone before I signed he led me to believe that the total cost would be about 8k a year because of my academic scholarship and financial aid. I just discovered my actual cost will be over 13k a year. What should I do?

He probably said your tuition would be about 8K a year and didn't account for living expenses. You should have researched this yourself. Easy Google searches will show the cost of attendance for any school. Always ask for the dollar amount they are offering you instead of the percentage.

paper trail wrote:

Find the emails from the coach showing where he states your total costs.

Have your parents forward the emails to his Compliance office and his AD.

Administrators are afraid of parents so they will cave and cover the costs, and probably fire the coach for doing his job so poorly.

Lol administrators are not afraid of parents unless those parents are donating large sums of money to the development of the school

Scholar Expert wrote:

Confusion is the correct term. There can't be a broken contract until next fall. The only agreement is the NLI and that is for athletic aid. Everything else is just an estimate. The OP is stuck for a year.

Also not true, you can talk to the coach and they can let you out of your NLI. You have a lot of time until the end of this signing period so there's a good chance he would let you out if he had other recruits in mind. Just explain to him you didn't realize how much school would cost and you have to look at other options. It's a win-win for you because he could offer you more to get you to stay or he'll let you off no strings attached.

You did not understand what I meant by broken contract. The OP is claiming that the University changed its promise. I pointed out that the contract is the NLI that he signed. The amount that they will pay is in the NLI. They can't be underpaying him because they have not started. You are sort of correct that you can get out of the NLI but it is the school's AD, not the coach who can do it. The coach can leave and you are still bound. The OP is in a bad situation if he complains to the coach. They will let him out and then he is nowhere.