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Game change: Oral Roberts still developing plan on providing stipends for its scholarship athletes - TW

 

“We certainly don’t have the resources to provide the stipend, the cost-of-attendance stipend, across the board,†Carter said this week. “We are assessing it to determine whether there is a level at which we will participate, but at this point we have not determined that.â€

 

 

i'd guess they will eventually offer stipends for Men's and Women's basketball.  that would be fewer than 30 athletes at about 3k per stipend....less than 100k a year.

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I'm wondering if it will be up to each sport at ORU (in other words, each coach) to come up with the money through extra fund-raising efforts.

Based on their past fund-raising activities, baseball is the sport best equipped to do so under their current leadership, followed by women's basketball and finally, men's basketball.

The most obvious fundraising that men's basketball does on its own is scheduling guarantee road games at Power 5 schools. Look for more of them in the future (most likely in place of holiday tournaments) if they choose to try to keep pace under this rule.

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here's what TU is doing...

 

Starting August 1, 2015 TU student athletes with full ride scholarships will get paid $2500 per year. Those on partial scholarships will get a percentage of that number.

TU's full scholarship sports includes football, men's and women's basketball, women's tennis and women's volleyball.

 

Horizon league..

 

Horizon League schools will be required to fund men’s basketball but can choose which women’s sport to fund, provided they provide for an equal number of female athletes. They are not required to cover other sports.

 

NDSU and SDSU...

 

Many schools are expected to fund stipends for football, men's basketball and women's basketball, Larsen said.

 

"So those are the things we considering on our campus," Larsen said. "To be able to compete at the level we want to compete at and compete against schools outside the Missouri Valley Conference and outside the Summit League, it's certainly something were taking a look at."

 

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If NDSU decides to fund cost of attendance in football, for example, it might have an effect on the rest of the Missouri Valley Conference. If the Bison are competing against South Dakota State for an athlete, the stipend offered by NDSU might be a difference-maker. SDSU athletic director Justin Sell was non-committal about cost of attendance when asked about it this week by the Sioux Falls Argus-Leader.

 

"There's not going to be any radical changes at South Dakota State right now," Sell said. "I think we're going to continue to do the things that we do, and were going to continue to do them well. And well continue to work on how we look at the resources we put into things."

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I don't like this stipend at all. It is simply another way to separate the haves from the have nots.

We will have to fund these stipends in order to be competitive. Simply stated, money talks.

As athletic departments grapple with how to fund these stipends, the most obvious place to cut in the future would probably be coaches salaries, because that is where the largest single amount of discretionary dollars are spent. This stipend is a slippery slope and it is another example that the Power conference schools don't care at all about anything or anyone else except themselves.

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