Schneider Heading West

[admin]

There has been a slight modification to the original article. Schneider will be receiving "close to" but not a full ride at Cal-Poly.

"Cal-Poly has 7.5 scholarships. Schneider will receive slightly over 90 percent [there’s a grant tied into living in the dorm] his freshman year and between 70-80 percent the following years."

[seanlove22]

Tough for Central IL to compete with this:

“The views of the mountains there are awesome. We went surfing at the beach [six miles away]; it was a lot of fun

Best of luck to Max in his collegiate years. It was fun getting a chance to watch him in IL the past four years and we will see plenty of him at the NCAA's over the next few years.

[Jaguar]

Best of luck to Max. I am excited to see him wrestle at the next level. Not everyone can or wants to go to Illinois.

[mckbln]

Good luck to Max...I know he will do well and get a great education.

[exwrestler155]

Nobody is bashing Illinois justadad and this is a perfectly acceptable forum to discuss details of the article which includes the % of scholarship offered. It appears it was a deciding factor. I learned something about scholarships from the other posters and it sounds like Illinois made a respectable offer with the good of the entire team in mind.

[wrestlingfan99]

Originally Posted by mckbln

Good luck to Max...I know he will do well and get a great education.

Ditto. Cal Poly is a great school by just about any benchmark. I don't know what Mr. Schneider's field of interest is study-wise, but their engineering school is outstanding. Illifornia is right on, it's an unbelievably great climate and environment. Pretty much 75-80 degrees every day and 52 every night. After my son visited the campus and San Luis Obispo it was game over for every other school. Hard to blame young Mr. Schneider for his choice of living in paradise.

[Brooksbrosmom]

Congrats to Max and his family. What a great school! I hope Cal Poly makes it out for the Midlands so we can watch Max wrestle again.

[MR TWISTER]

Originally Posted by Illiana

9.9 scholarships limit the coaches big time. A lot of folks don't understand that in wrestling, most Big Ten schools are only giving 1/3 rides. This is the norm, not the exception. Look at most rosters for Big Ten teams, they usually hover around 30-33 wrestlers. At the D1 level, who is going to walk-on and stay for 4yrs? The great majority of these wrestlers are getting 30-40%. As a coach, you gotta spread those 9.9 scholarships out. The difference between wrestling and, say, football, is immense. If any wrestler, no matter who it is, gets a full-ride offer, they had better seriously consider it because it is not a common thing at all.

I have been saying this for years. I know many say there are no full time rides in wrestling but that is just not true. There are just not a lot of them and like you said Illiana, if offered one you better seriously consider it... And with the cost of college tuition, when it is all said and done, the bills kick in 6 months after graduation, that full ride looks even better when there are no bills coming.

Congrats Max...Cal-Poly fits his style of wrestling...