My understanding is that if you play two sports (and one is football) and are on athletic scholarship, the schollie has to count against football. This was the “Bear Bryant rule”, since he used to place football players on other sports teams to get around scholarship limitations.
Hypothetical question for the pack: if your football team has a 1% chance of ever winning a natty no matter what you do, do you do the opposite of Bear and place baseball players on the football team so you can effectively have a full scholarship baseball team at the expense of your football team.
This isn’t about whether you’d rather a football natty, but given the relative likelihood would you give up a win or two in football to field a much better baseball team since it’s much more likely you could dominate in that sport?
Hypothetical question for the pack: if your football team has a 1% chance of ever winning a natty no matter what you do, do you do the opposite of Bear and place baseball players on the football team so you can effectively have a full scholarship baseball team at the expense of your football team.
This isn’t about whether you’d rather a football natty, but given the relative likelihood would you give up a win or two in football to field a much better baseball team since it’s much more likely you could dominate in that sport?
