LINK: http://www.baseballamerica.com/college/stretching-scholarship-dollars-key-college-success/

The rules of the game are totally messed up for real competition. It’s a nasty loop hole that gives certain teams a huge advantage.

This is my take, if the state has TOPS, LIFE, HOPE, and other scholarships, god bless. But these things should not be additive to the scholarship Cap.

Further, the shame on Vanderbilt is incredible. They are giving scholarships to people that would not be accepted as regular students to fill the baseball roster with championship players. So, they are playing with 3x the scholarships of everyone else. That’s crazy and totally unsporting. I repeat, Vandy players are not Students that play baseball; they are Baseball players that feign to be students. If the kids were 33-ACT and 4.0 GPAs, I have no gripe.

Again, if Vanderbilt wants to give charity scholarships to lesser students, so be it. However, this charity cannot be additive to the scholarship Cap imposed on the other teams. They can have the kids on campus if they like them as human beings, but 11.7 should be all they can place in baseball uniform.

This problem is more important to solve than small ball, Cohen meddling, MLB draft, Adidas bats, uniforms, and stadium dimensions. We are letting Vanderbilt rob us blind! This is way worse than steroids for competitive advantage. The next step is for Stanford, Wake Forest, Miami, Baylor, TCU, USC and Duke to start doing the same thing.