I saw a bill proposed in Texas to limit the number of international student athletes to 25% of the scholarships given by the university’s athletics program.
When I saw the headline I thought we’d see someone try to limit the number of foreign players receiving scholarship so the kids of more American tax payers receive them.
But setting the limit at 25 percent is either ignorant or pandering to a myth when only about 4 percent of the 550,000 athletic scholarship recipients today (23,000) are internationals.
The two companion bills were introduced into the state senate by . Brandon Creighton (R) fRep. Drew Darby (R).
Now, if the legislation set limits by sport roster, so no more then 25 percent of a sport’s roster could be international, then maybe the bill could impact sports like women’s soccer cross country, golf, tennis but when they set a 25% limit for the total number of athletes in a department (typically 550-600) then even if the bill passes, a department could still have 150 internationals on scholarship, far more than anyone has now to my knowledge.
So the bill seems to be chasing a problem that doesn’t exist. .
Does this irk you too?
When I saw the headline I thought we’d see someone try to limit the number of foreign players receiving scholarship so the kids of more American tax payers receive them.
But setting the limit at 25 percent is either ignorant or pandering to a myth when only about 4 percent of the 550,000 athletic scholarship recipients today (23,000) are internationals.
The two companion bills were introduced into the state senate by . Brandon Creighton (R) fRep. Drew Darby (R).
Now, if the legislation set limits by sport roster, so no more then 25 percent of a sport’s roster could be international, then maybe the bill could impact sports like women’s soccer cross country, golf, tennis but when they set a 25% limit for the total number of athletes in a department (typically 550-600) then even if the bill passes, a department could still have 150 internationals on scholarship, far more than anyone has now to my knowledge.
So the bill seems to be chasing a problem that doesn’t exist. .
Does this irk you too?
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