Texas lawmakers introduce bill to limit scholarships to international student-athletes

[NT80]

"Each bill mandates, in part, that public colleges in the state award " students who are citizens of a foreign country" no more than 25% of "total athletic scholarships, grants, or similar financial assistance."

https://www.statesman.com/story/sports/college/2025/02/21/texas-international-student-bill-brandon-creighton-drew-darby/79465000007/

 

[Mean Green 93-98]

Total athletic scholarships, so not for each sport?  For schools that field a football team, I can't imagine this would be a problem.

[untphd]

20 hours ago, Mean Green 93-98 said:

Total athletic scholarships, so not for each sport?  For schools that field a football team, I can't imagine this would be a problem.

Here is the International Student Participation by gender and sport and country. 

 

https://www.ncaa.org/sports/2018/3/21/international-student-athlete-participation.aspx

[untbowler]

On 2/22/2025 at 10:19 PM, NT80 said:

"Each bill mandates, in part, that public colleges in the state award " students who are citizens of a foreign country" no more than 25% of "total athletic scholarships, grants, or similar financial assistance."

https://www.statesman.com/story/sports/college/2025/02/21/texas-international-student-bill-brandon-creighton-drew-darby/79465000007/

 

This passes and is per sport, will kill Texas Teams in Tennis for sure where they are not able to get Blue Chip Recruits. 

Believe MS does this already at their JUCO's and they are not competitive at all.

Edited Monday at 05:52 PM by untbowler

[Censored by Laurie]

so from this article, 25,000 of the 510,000 scholarship athletes are international students...or just under 5%. 25% would be 127,500. 

this country is run by absolute bigoted morons with no grounding in reality. for eff's sake. 

[greenminer]

What is the intent behind this, to make room for more US citizens?

[MCMLXXX]

1 hour ago, Censored by Laurie said:

this country is run by absolute bigoted morons with no grounding in reality. for eff's sake. 

The simple fact that State Legislators believe that State Universities that are funded by taxpayer dollars should prioritize athletic scholarships for tax paying citizens children is neither bigoted nor moronic. They simply have an opinion that differs from your own. They are most likely being responsive to their constituents' concerns.

[Censored by Laurie]

1 hour ago, MCMLXXX said:

The simple fact that State Legislators believe that State Universities that are funded by taxpayer dollars should prioritize athletic scholarships for tax paying citizens children is neither bigoted nor moronic. They simply have an opinion that differs from your own. They are most likely being responsive to their constituents' concerns.

oh you know what...I'm sorry, maybe I misread...considering they're proposing a cap that is FIVE TIMES higher than reality, maybe this is in fact an incredibly progressive bill encouraging more diversity and international athletes at public schools. from the Texas legislature, no less...wow...times are changing. 

I initially just thought that since their "limit" was, again, FIVE TIMES higher than the reality, that these lawmakers did absolutely no research into this non-problem issue they were putting forward and instead just saw an avenue to stoke more DEI and/or immigrant fear-mongering bullshit. 

Edited yesterday at 01:10 AM by Censored by Laurie

[MCMLXXX]

22 hours ago, Censored by Laurie said:

oh you know what...I'm sorry, maybe I misread...

Apology accepted, no harm done. We all view the world through different lenses

[Ross Hodgeson]

10 minutes ago, MCMLXXX said:

Apology accepted, no harm done. We all view the world through different lenses

Well stated.

[greenminer]

[Censored by Laurie]

14 hours ago, MCMLXXX said:

Apology accepted, no harm done. We all view the world through different lenses

some very fine people on both sides

[MeanGreenTexan]

1 hour ago, Censored by Laurie said:

some very fine people on both sides

[TIgreen01]

On 2/24/2025 at 7:10 PM, Censored by Laurie said:

oh you know what...I'm sorry, maybe I misread...considering they're proposing a cap that is FIVE TIMES higher than reality, maybe this is in fact an incredibly progressive bill encouraging more diversity and international athletes at public schools. from the Texas legislature, no less...wow...times are changing. 

I initially just thought that since their "limit" was, again, FIVE TIMES higher than the reality, that these lawmakers did absolutely no research into this non-problem issue they were putting forward and instead just saw an avenue to stoke more DEI and/or immigrant fear-mongering bullshit. 

Having done no other research, it seems likely that this is targeted at specific schools rather than the whole.  That 25k out of 500k stat appears to be misleading, perhaps purposefully?

Edited 2 hours ago by TIgreen01

[97and03]

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