NJ-Buckeye;2336550; said:
It's seems relatively clear what life on scholly is when the individual is living on campus and in a dorm.. with open access to team training table but
How does it work when the individual decides to live off campus?
Do they get a monthly allowance? for rent? for food? for things like laundry?
Obviously the student athlete returns home on occasion
Do they get an allowance to travel back/forth? once/twice a year?
Who pays for any medical care if the athlete gets hurt:
while playing their normal sport?
If doing anything else including horsing around or stepping on glass?
Is this part of the athletic scholarship or is the athlete given paid medical like any other student has access to purchase when enrolling?
Does the school pay for all athletic gear the individual uses?
and are these answers tOSU specific or for any college (exhawg, etc..)?
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My experience is 12+ years old so things may have changed, but here is what I can remember at a school other than OSU. We received a stipend every semester to cover expenses like rent, food, etc. For some reason $3,800 is stuck in my head. During the season we had training table after practice so the check was reduced slightly for those meals. Nothing was taken for gameday meals. Just an FYI while living on campus our food card started with 3x as much as regular students so by the time the semester was over we were usually buying cases of poweraide, water, pop tarts, cookies, and anything else that we could take back to the rooms as snacks.
All college athletes are first covered by their personal health insurance and then the school picks up whatever is left so there is no expense to the player. In my case my parents already had insurance coverage for me that covered everything so the school never had to pay anything for the two surgeries that I had. I think other medical expenses are on the player/family, but trainers and team doctors are available so it has to be something pretty serious to blow back on the player. I sprained my ankle in racquetball class and hurt my wrist playing co-ed softball and was able to just go to the trainers for help.
The only additional money that I can remember was a small stipend while taking summer classes. I had to actively be taking classes in order to receive money, which is why most guys tried to take a summer class. That might be one place where OSU can provide more assistance since their budget is large enough that they can allow everyone to take summer class and provide as much of a stipend as the NCAA permits. I'm sure my school was limited by the amount of money they could scrape together. There was no travel money and the only time you were allowed to have a job was during summer. Ironically we had several guys that had been walk-ons and were put on schollie, but ended up quitting because they were no longer allowed to have their jobs outside of football.
On a funny side story we stayed in a hotel every game and would get a couple meals the day before the game and 2-3 meals the day of the game depending on the time of the game. After our meetings on Friday night everyone would get a large Papa Johns pizza as a snack. The university paper got word of this and wrote a big article about all the "perks" we received like hotel (for home games), meals, etc. The only thing any other students asked us about was the pizza.
Let me know if I missed anything and I'll try to dust off the memory banks a little more.
