I still think that it's bogus that the cost of attendance could be so much higher at Auburn ($5,586) vs. Alabama (less than $3,000) and Auburn, for instance, provides nearly $3,000 more than Stanford.
Georgia, meanwhile, offers $3,221, according to the Athens Banner-Herald. That's better than some -- Alabama, Texas A&M, Kentucky and Vanderbilt are all below $3,000.
And, I still believe Auburn will use that as a recruiting advantage in this first year of giving players the 'full cost of attendance".
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Auburn's cost of attendance explained
Starting on Aug. 1, the 65 schools in the Power Five conferences will begin paying their athletes the full cost of attendance -- the extra amount that it costs to attend a given school beyond tuition/fees, books and room/board -- and the number will vary by the school, based on the amounts the universities have been reporting for years.
Three of the four universities that will offer their athletes an additional $5,000 or more (based on a traditional nine-month academic schedule) are members of the SEC: Tennessee ($5,666), Auburn ($,5,586) and Mississippi State ($5,126). Seven of the top 20 come from the SEC.
But where do these numbers come from? The Montgomery Advertiser's James Crepea sat down with Mike Reynolds, Auburn's executive director of student financial services, to learn just how he arrived at the numbers that are being met with considerably more scrutiny than in the recent past.
Crepea's story provides an interesting look at the factors Reynolds includes in his total, which is generally broken down into $2,728 for personal expenses and $2,858 for transportation.
Before now, the reason schools assembled that data was to let prospective students know approximately how much money it would require to attend. As Reynolds noted, “My job is to make sure students have the opportunity to receive this education. If I don't have this high enough, I'm doing a disservice to them.”
Although Auburn's athletics administrators insisted that they have nothing to do with Reynolds' report, rest assured that Tigers coach Gus Malzahn is happy about what it shows. As are Tennessee's Butch Jones and Mississippi State's Dan Mullen, who will also have a leg up on their SEC counterparts in what they can offer recruits.
One university being able to offer prospects more in financial aid than another will absolutely become a recruiting tool after Aug. 1. Auburn's coaches said as much in Crepea's story. Although some coaches whose schools rank lower on the pay scale don't like it, it's out of the SEC's -- or the NCAA's -- hands now that the courts in the Ed O'Bannon case ordered schools to follow federal guidelines.
Outgoing SEC commissioner Mike Slive summed it up best at last month's SEC spring meetings: The league can require transparency from its membership on how they reach their numbers, but there will be no normalizing the amounts.
"We are constrained by the law, whether the law is statutory or the law is created by the judicial branch. We understand their really compelling concern about how it affects recruiting, but we just try to explain to them that this is something we've always wanted, going way back, we've always wanted full cost of attendance,” Slive said at one of the media conferences wrapping up a daily series of meetings.
"How it's measured, the judge in O'Bannon indicated that we're going to follow the federal rules and it's a financial aid issue -- it's not an athletic issue -- it's run by the financial aid office and there are differentials. That's a product of what I would call the 'vision for the 21st century;' we're putting student-athletes first."
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Georgia, meanwhile, offers $3,221, according to the Athens Banner-Herald. That's better than some -- Alabama, Texas A&M, Kentucky and Vanderbilt are all below $3,000.
And, I still believe Auburn will use that as a recruiting advantage in this first year of giving players the 'full cost of attendance".
Article:
Auburn's cost of attendance explained
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David Ching, ESPN Staff Writer
Starting on Aug. 1, the 65 schools in the Power Five conferences will begin paying their athletes the full cost of attendance -- the extra amount that it costs to attend a given school beyond tuition/fees, books and room/board -- and the number will vary by the school, based on the amounts the universities have been reporting for years.
Three of the four universities that will offer their athletes an additional $5,000 or more (based on a traditional nine-month academic schedule) are members of the SEC: Tennessee ($5,666), Auburn ($,5,586) and Mississippi State ($5,126). Seven of the top 20 come from the SEC.
But where do these numbers come from? The Montgomery Advertiser's James Crepea sat down with Mike Reynolds, Auburn's executive director of student financial services, to learn just how he arrived at the numbers that are being met with considerably more scrutiny than in the recent past.
Crepea's story provides an interesting look at the factors Reynolds includes in his total, which is generally broken down into $2,728 for personal expenses and $2,858 for transportation.
Before now, the reason schools assembled that data was to let prospective students know approximately how much money it would require to attend. As Reynolds noted, “My job is to make sure students have the opportunity to receive this education. If I don't have this high enough, I'm doing a disservice to them.”
Although Auburn's athletics administrators insisted that they have nothing to do with Reynolds' report, rest assured that Tigers coach Gus Malzahn is happy about what it shows. As are Tennessee's Butch Jones and Mississippi State's Dan Mullen, who will also have a leg up on their SEC counterparts in what they can offer recruits.
One university being able to offer prospects more in financial aid than another will absolutely become a recruiting tool after Aug. 1. Auburn's coaches said as much in Crepea's story. Although some coaches whose schools rank lower on the pay scale don't like it, it's out of the SEC's -- or the NCAA's -- hands now that the courts in the Ed O'Bannon case ordered schools to follow federal guidelines.
Outgoing SEC commissioner Mike Slive summed it up best at last month's SEC spring meetings: The league can require transparency from its membership on how they reach their numbers, but there will be no normalizing the amounts.
"We are constrained by the law, whether the law is statutory or the law is created by the judicial branch. We understand their really compelling concern about how it affects recruiting, but we just try to explain to them that this is something we've always wanted, going way back, we've always wanted full cost of attendance,” Slive said at one of the media conferences wrapping up a daily series of meetings.
"How it's measured, the judge in O'Bannon indicated that we're going to follow the federal rules and it's a financial aid issue -- it's not an athletic issue -- it's run by the financial aid office and there are differentials. That's a product of what I would call the 'vision for the 21st century;' we're putting student-athletes first."
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