A few updates on recruits
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- November
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I’m still in frigid Kingston, where we’re wrapping up our state semifinal football coverage for the night. In case you’re wondering, Rye and Dobbs Ferry advanced to the Dome (again) and New Rochelle lost a heartbreaker. In other news, I may have frostbite…
On the hot-stove front, we’ve learned that Clarkstown North LHP Chris O’Grady has committed to George Mason. His brother, T.J., who went to St. Joe’s of Montvale and is a sophomore righty, already pitches for the Patriots, so they will join forces beginning in the fall of ‘08. Jake is supposed to talk to Chris, so I’ll let him fill you in with the details.
I’ve exchanged a couple e-mails lately with pitchers: Port Chester’s Jesse Burba and White Plains’ Josh Herzenberg. Both guys are undecided as of yet but each has a few different options he’s mulling over. If and when they commit, I’ll certainly pass along where they’re headed.
As always, if you, your player or your son has signed on somewhere to play ball, e-mail me at jthomson@lohud.com and I’ll pass the news along.
Until then, stay outta the cold…
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Josh Thomson has done some of everything since joining The Journal News in
March 2003. He began working for the Gannett weeklies during the winter of
2002 as a freelance writer. He joined the daily staff soon after and has
since covered various high school and pro sports. Away from sportswriting,
Josh lives in Westchester and spends his free time either with his
fiancee, Sarah, or expertly managing his various championship-winning
fantasy sports teams. He's visited 21 major-league baseball stadiums and
insists that Fenway Park and Wrigley Field are the best by far. Josh
graduated from Carmel High School in 1998, then went to Boston University,
where, in 2002, he received a degree in communications with a minor in
history. 
Jake Thomases has covered baseball, hockey, girls basketball, and girls soccer for the Journal News since arriving in 2003. He previously interned at The Poughkeepsie Journal while attending Vassar College. He is socking money away under his mattress to buy the Knicks, at which time he will trade Jerome James to Cleveland for a ham sandwich.
Jesse Burba is dat dude. hit me up son
have you heard anything about pitasi
hv baseball…I have not. Does anyone know if Donny’s decided? If so, where’s he headed?
Waiting to see the Iona class. Coach Carey told me today that he signed 9 players. I think we know of 3 here and another is Matt Nash RHP from the Albany area. Matt Jordan from Kingston HS is headed to Manhattan.
Are they fully funded? How many scholarships did he give out? Aren’t there new limits now?
He is not fully funded by any means. Not even close. For Iona, they have to recruit good students as well as athletes’. If the first 30% comes from academics, he can get 5 players on 50% by using 1 scholarship. It’s the way of the future. Getting 50% is a nice piece of change at a $30K+ school. I would guess that they used maybe the equivalant of 2 full scholarships to land 9 players. Just my guess no other information. I would also guess that each one of the kids or 7 of 9 are very solid students with good GPA and SAT scores. It’s an accomplishment for these student athletes and they should be applauded.
For a list of signees you can check http://www.collegebaseballinsider.com or http://www.perfectgame.org
So when a kid says he “got a full ride”...he didn’t get a full baseball scholarship, he got academic cash and a partial bb scholarship? Not that it matters, you are going to a good school, playing ball and not paying too much. Hard to beat that combo, right?
there are no full rides or very few 1/1000. There are 11.7 scholarsips and 30 scholarship players in fully funded schools. Do the math. Many schools in our area are not fully funded meaning the school admin is giving them a smaller allotment. D2 schools only get 8 scholarships to devide amongst their 30 and D3 get “0”. Kids can get the equvilant of a full ride when you add academic, financial aid, baseball money (small %) and loans/grants. I’ve heard about all the full rides too, mainly from friends of the player etc, Parents know the truth. The best is the term “great package” that covers it all.
Fully Funded D-1 schools have 11.7 scholarships to divide up among a maximum of 27 players. Maximum roster size is 35 players.
D-2 schools have 9 scholarships
and NAIA schools can offer 12 scholarships
and NJCAA (Junior College Baseball Div1 and 2) schools can offer 24 scholarships.
Correction the 27 don’t go into effect until the following year. The first year it’s 30 players as the NCAA was gracious enough to give the schools a little time to get down to the 27.
You are correct as most of these are new numbers for the 2009 season. These changes effect the 08’ and 09’ recruiting classes respectively.
NCAA Division I: 11.7
NCAA Division II: 9.0
NCAA Division III: 0
NAIA: 12
NJCAA: DI and DII: 24
NJCAA: DIII 0
Why cant D3 schools give $$$? They are in the NCAA’s arent they? INteresting.