Because of scholarship limitations, Brown said, college coaches run their practices more like the N.F.L.'s, heavy on mental preparation, while taking care to preserve players' bodies for games.
Many students and their parents think of playing a sport not because of scholarship money, but because it is stimulating and might even give them a leg up in the increasingly competitive process of applying to college.
2. Good Grades = Free Money: Make it your job to get great grades because that opens up the world of scholarships (free money for college) and better schools.
The US is often quoted as the country whose system of student funding most cloesely corresponds to England's, but because of generous scholarships in private universities and very low fees charged by many state universities, only 70% of US students graduate with debt, which in any case only averages £22,750.
It gets annoying, because in reality most of us are there because of grants, scholarships and wanting to travel.
An investigation revealed that Coach Dave Bliss had arranged for a booster to pay tuition for two players, including Dennehy, because Bliss had run out of scholarships.
When Valentine was shown a list of the Mets' projected bullpen midway through March, he doubted that group would start the season because "there's a lot of scholarships on that list," his way of saying that a player was on the roster for potential and not for track record.
John didn't initially find the transition into professional theatre easy, partly because the world of scholarship was regarded with suspicion in those days and partly because John was initially authoritarian, dealing with results rather than individual creative processes.
"This is an important innovation because despite centuries of scholarship there exist many unresolved questions about the … evolution for different folktale traditions," says Robert Ross, a psychologist at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, who has studied the origins and transmission of folktales.
