Lehigh Football Nation
August 10th, 2014, 06:00 PM
http://today.duke.edu/2009/10/clotfelter_oped.html
I'm studying this same report, specifically the New York Times' front-page report detailing their findings. Since every thread is really about the Patriot League, one of the most fascinating findings was that all seven Patriot League schools, Fordham, Georgetown, Bucknell, Lehigh, Lafayette, Colgate, and Holy Cross all were offering some form of scholarships at this time.
None were the worst offenders, but every one of them were doing it. Highlights:
* Lehigh had strict high academic standards, but alumni were subsidizing scholarship athletes outside the institutions' control
* Bucknell "helped their students as their needs required" in the form of scholarships
* Holy Cross had scholarships, but balanced them between athletes and non-athletes (Lehigh did something similar)
* Georgetown had an "outright allocation of funds" to athletes
* Colgate fully subsidized 25 scholarships
* Fordham was accused of having a slush fund to subsidize players, as well as recruiting athletes with incentives
* Lafayette had a slush fund which was used to subsidize players - officials were making an attempt to end the practice
Special scorn was heaped on the powerful Ivy League schools, all which were also accused of similar wrongdoing on a larger scale, except for, most notably, Yale. But it's worth a revisit this August as to what college athletics used to be.
I'm studying this same report, specifically the New York Times' front-page report detailing their findings. Since every thread is really about the Patriot League, one of the most fascinating findings was that all seven Patriot League schools, Fordham, Georgetown, Bucknell, Lehigh, Lafayette, Colgate, and Holy Cross all were offering some form of scholarships at this time.
None were the worst offenders, but every one of them were doing it. Highlights:
* Lehigh had strict high academic standards, but alumni were subsidizing scholarship athletes outside the institutions' control
* Bucknell "helped their students as their needs required" in the form of scholarships
* Holy Cross had scholarships, but balanced them between athletes and non-athletes (Lehigh did something similar)
* Georgetown had an "outright allocation of funds" to athletes
* Colgate fully subsidized 25 scholarships
* Fordham was accused of having a slush fund to subsidize players, as well as recruiting athletes with incentives
* Lafayette had a slush fund which was used to subsidize players - officials were making an attempt to end the practice
Special scorn was heaped on the powerful Ivy League schools, all which were also accused of similar wrongdoing on a larger scale, except for, most notably, Yale. But it's worth a revisit this August as to what college athletics used to be.