Stretching Scholarship Dollars Key To College Success | BaseballAmerica.com

This is going to be a tough one to work out since you have two of the biggest control freaks in sports, MLB and the NCAA, struggling for control of these assets called baseball players. If MLB gives subsidies, they are going to want some measure of control in return. 

We'll see how it goes and I remain hopeful they can improve the landscape. But IDK......There should be a partnership type of arrangement and colleges currently work with the industries they serve all the time in terms of curriculum, so this should be somewhat in their wheelhouse. 

So there you go MLB, here's your to do list:

• Subsidize RBI baseball in the inner cities
• Subsidize women's/girls softball nationally
• Subsidize college scholarships
• Subsidize baseball/softball internationally via WBC tournaments to enhance or replace Olympics command and control every four years

It's an investment in your potential future players as well as expansion of the sports future audience.  See how easy it is to spend other peoples money? I should be a politician, but I don't want to shower/delouse three times a day.

from Baseball America:

http://www.baseballamerica.com/college/stretching-scholarship-dollars-key-collegwith e-success/#KlEWlE4r3aUmK1U5.97

Stretching Scholarship Dollars Key To College Success

June 23, 2015 By Ian Frazer

Courtesy of Stanford University

In late March, Stanford announced it was raising an important financial aid threshold. Previously, any family with a yearly household income of $100,000 or less could expect to contribute nothing to a student's tuition payments. This year, that number became $125,000, which is more than twice the median U.S. household income but right in line with the median figure of Stanford's student body.

The motivation for the move was primarily academic: Removing money as an obstacle in getting the smartest, most talented high school students to Palo Alto.

The implications go further than that, though, to the sphere of athletics. Not to football and basketball, most schools' most popular sports and primary moneymakers. A scholarship in those sports has essentially the same value anywhere, and schools are can cover each position three to four times over.

Baseball, however, is different. It is limited to 11.7 scholarships for a 35-man roster, and those are doled out not in terms of yes and no, but in percentages and fractions.

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