Would this most heavily affect tennis and soccer? With how much scholarship weight football has I would be surprised if total athletic scholarships to foreign citizens was anywhere close to 25%
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Those sports have a good deal of foreign born athletes but I am skeptical that this law actually would do anything at large schools because of football. Smaller schools would maybe run into issues. I do wonder if this is just an idea to get more local kids athletic scholarships
Respectfully, I think it’s a fools errand to assume anything but the worst of intentions with bills like this.
Also — the number of “local” kids good enough for D1 collegiate athletics that are losing out on scholarships to international students has to be minuscule at most.
I agree on both points. I think that this is more so about signaling though. To your second point I think that it isn’t about if the locals are good enough. It’s about getting those people into spots wether they are good enough or not
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Also — the number of “local” kids good enough for D1 collegiate athletics that are losing out on scholarships to international students has to be minuscule at most.