Scholorships (boy vs girl)

[ClarkC]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

And how many of the guys who receive partial tennis scholarships received other scholarships or financial awards to make up the shortfall?

8 women receive full rides on many NCAA Division 1 teams for 4 years. Are you implying that the men receive enough in other scholarships to even out the situation?

[goran_ace]

from a Street & Smith’s SportsBusiness Journal article earlier this year about how much revenue football brings:

The University of Texas ranked No. 1 with $72.95 million followed by the University of Georgia with $67.05 million, University of Florida with $66.1 million, Ohio State University with $65.16 million and Notre Dame University with $59.77 million. The remaining 10 teams in football revenues were the University of Michigan (No. 7 with $ 57.46 million), Penn State University (No. 9 with 53.76 million) and Louisiana State University (10th with $52.68 million).

[goran_ace]

it's also worth noting that big time college football teams can have expenses in in the $25M-$30M range.

[rosenstar]

Originally Posted by duusoo

I said in my response, look at Ohio State. I believe we qualify as a real football school. Also, a real tennis school!

Sorry I missed that, Yes OSU is a real football school and a damn good tennis school.

[grizzly4life]

i saw a canadian school looking for golfers.... set cutoff of handicap 4 for men, 15 for women. just a massive difference. and as i'm sure most of you know, a 10 handicap for men and women is totally different, the man is much, much better.

[TennisCoachFLA]

I have heard this discussion 100000 times. Yup, as far as tennis scholarships women have an advantage. Unfair, especially to many white guys who try for tennis scholarships? Okay.

But that is life. White men have advantages in many, many other areas that are unfair to women and minorities. They make more money for the same work many times. They hire others who look like them over equally qualified people sometimes. And Ivy League white guys are notorious for keeping it all in the 'family' as much as they can.

I think in the grand scheme of society, the advantages FAR outweigh any disadvantages we have in tennis scholarships!

The plain truth is very little in life is a level playing field, in most arenas someone has an advantage. The women won the tennis and golf scholarship battle, us white guys win many other battles, such is life.