Bama softball loses a commitment

[Jamos]

I was at a softball meeting tonight and found out that Bama has lost commitment Sydney Littlejohn to Louisiana Lafayette. Littlejohn is the pitcher from Texas that was supposed to fill Traina's place when Traina graduates. It seems more scholarship money was offered her by Louisiana Lafayette and Bama couldn't match it. The states that have a lottery can provide more scholarship money than those that don't. This was a big loss for the program. All I hear from the naysayers of the lotteries is that they don't really help education any, well I know better now.

Also, Denae Hayes suffered a broken nose from being hit by a softball in practice and will be limited at what she can do for awhile.

[pmull]

That is bad news. Littlejohn was highly recruited and I was looking forward to seeing her play for Alabama. The lottery money is a big issue in baseball and softball where you have limited scholarships and big rosters.

[2Stater]

I was at a softball meeting tonight and found out that Bama has lost commitment Sydney Littlejohn to Louisiana Lafayette. Littlejohn is the pitcher from Texas that was supposed to fill Traina's place when Traina graduates. It seems more scholarship money was offered her by Louisiana Lafayette and Bama couldn't match it. The states that have a lottery can provide more scholarship money than those that don't. This was a big loss for the program. All I hear from the naysayers of the lotteries is that they don't really help education any, well I know better now.

Also, Denae Hayes suffered a broken nose from being hit by a softball in practice and will be limited at what she can do for awhile.

 

I can tell you first hand that the lottery helps, at least here in Florida. I have 3 daughters that went to college, 1 on a full ride(when she came to her senses and transferred from NYU), and 2 on 75%. I understand the implications of gambling to those who feel it is not right, I'm not an advocate of it, myself, but Alabama now has gambling in other forms that are more serious than the lottery. If the state can approve those, even though much of it is Native American owned, they should certainly entertain having a lottery.

Just my 2 cents.

[bama87]

I have been saying this for awhile. Softball and baseball and non revenue sports are hurt by not having lottery schollys. I'm in TN and it has definitely helped kids go to school. My wife sees it on the other end with dollars going into the classroom. She is a teacher. The state of Alabama needs to get with it.

[Hannibal Lecter, MD]

I don't really understand how the state lottery impacts scholarships in this instance.  Everyone follows the same NCAA limit on how many scholarships they can provide.

[SUPERCOACH]

I think the idea is that the player gets an athletic scholarship, but then they also get a lottery scholarship to go with it, like any other regular student has access to.  That gives the student more money for other stuff.  So the lottery states essentially get a stipend while states like Alabama do not.

[pmull]

I don't really understand how the state lottery impacts scholarships in this instance.  Everyone follows the same NCAA limit on how many scholarships they can provide.

You can get cost of tuition funded by Hope scholarships for in state players leaving more NCAA athlectic scholarships available.

[SUPERCOACH]

Another big issue is that the lottery states will have a ton more walk ons because the kids can use their lottery scholarship to go to school.  Some of those walk ons will pan out and be contributors.

[pmull]

Softball can offer 12 scholarships and baseball 11.7. They each have over 20 players. They are mostly given out as 25% or 50% to make them go further. A lottery (Hope) scholarship is approximately worth a 50% athlectic scholarship.

[Marshal Dillon]

Softball can offer 12 scholarships and baseball 11.7. They each have over 20 players. They are mostly given out as 25% or 50% to make them go further. A lottery (Hope) scholarship is approximately worth a 50% athlectic scholarship.

Are these SEC limits, NCAA, or the university? I don't understand why we are so limited.


 

[Marshal Dillon]

I was at a softball meeting tonight and found out that Bama has lost commitment Sydney Littlejohn to Louisiana Lafayette. Littlejohn is the pitcher from Texas that was supposed to fill Traina's place when Traina graduates. It seems more scholarship money was offered her by Louisiana Lafayette and Bama couldn't match it. The states that have a lottery can provide more scholarship money than those that don't. This was a big loss for the program. All I hear from the naysayers of the lotteries is that they don't really help education any, well I know better now.

Also, Denae Hayes suffered a broken nose from being hit by a softball in practice and will be limited at what she can do for awhile.

I have never understood why the voters are so stupid on the issue of the lottery. Mississippi has CASINOS for gosh sakes, which are much more dangerous to have due to influence from the Mafia. A lottery is impervious to that and is quite harmeless and don't tell Georgians the lottery does not work in education. They love it! I would like to hear from someone on this forum who is against the lottery. I would like to hear their specific reasons they are against it. Not looking to flame anyone, just would like to see why some folks are opposed. I think a lottery could pass the voters in our state if it is properly explained and especially with the need for more money in the state coffers.


 

[ricky023]

I was at a softball meeting tonight and found out that Bama has lost commitment Sydney Littlejohn to Louisiana Lafayette. Littlejohn is the pitcher from Texas that was supposed to fill Traina's place when Traina graduates. It seems more scholarship money was offered her by Louisiana Lafayette and Bama couldn't match it. The states that have a lottery can provide more scholarship money than those that don't. This was a big loss for the program. All I hear from the naysayers of the lotteries is that they don't really help education any, well I know better now.

Also, Denae Hayes suffered a broken nose from being hit by a softball in practice and will be limited at what she can do for awhile.

I have never understood why the voters are so stupid on the issue of the lottery. Mississippi has CASINOS for gosh sakes, which are much more dangerous to have due to influence from the Mafia. A lottery is impervious to that and is quite harmeless and don't tell Georgians the lottery does not work in education. They love it! I would like to hear from someone on this forum who is against the lottery. I would like to hear their specific reasons they are against it. Not looking to flame anyone, just would like to see why some folks are opposed. I think a lottery could pass the voters in our state if it is properly explained and especially with the need for more money in the state coffers.


 

OK great question and thanks MD for asking it. I will not flame any one at all. I just believe in my heart as a Preacher of the Gospel of Jesus Christ that gambling is wrong for all, simply because the Roman Soldiers gambled for Christs' clothing. Now, with this said yes, I am against the lottery because of how people use it also whether they have food or not they would still gamble. Let me add to this that, the Bible teaches me that if man drafts a law then we are to follow that law to the best of our understanding. So, if man voted the lottery in, I would only say I will abide by the law because that is the right thing to do.
Now this may not make any sense to you or others, but it is the feeling that I have in my heart. This is what I have to live with and I hope this does explain why. If you have any questions on my reply please, please feel free to tell me or others. RTR!

[SUPERCOACH]

I was at a softball meeting tonight and found out that Bama has lost commitment Sydney Littlejohn to Louisiana Lafayette. Littlejohn is the pitcher from Texas that was supposed to fill Traina's place when Traina graduates. It seems more scholarship money was offered her by Louisiana Lafayette and Bama couldn't match it. The states that have a lottery can provide more scholarship money than those that don't. This was a big loss for the program. All I hear from the naysayers of the lotteries is that they don't really help education any, well I know better now.

Also, Denae Hayes suffered a broken nose from being hit by a softball in practice and will be limited at what she can do for awhile.

I have never understood why the voters are so stupid on the issue of the lottery. Mississippi has CASINOS for gosh sakes, which are much more dangerous to have due to influence from the Mafia. A lottery is impervious to that and is quite harmeless and don't tell Georgians the lottery does not work in education. They love it! I would like to hear from someone on this forum who is against the lottery. I would like to hear their specific reasons they are against it. Not looking to flame anyone, just would like to see why some folks are opposed. I think a lottery could pass the voters in our state if it is properly explained and especially with the need for more money in the state coffers.


 

I was against the lottery for a long time because my granny said it was bad and would tan my hide if she thought I was for it.    The lady was a saint and I respected every word she ever uttered.

Then I started thinking for myself, and I was still against it because it seems to be an extra tax on poor folks.  The great majority of lottery ticket sales go to people who don't make a lot of money and think their only way out of poverty is to win the lottery.  So let's extort these poor folks so we will have more money to build bridges to nowhere.

Then I thought on it some more, and now I am probably for it.  Probably because I am still thinking.  I realized that the children of those same poor folks will be the primary beneficiary of that "tax" by getting opportunities to go to school that they would not have otherwise.

I don't like the idea of having a lottery and part of the money going into the general state budget.  I will probably never go for that.  But a lottery that was 100% for education seems like a good idea to me.

And when I say 100% education, I mean 100% education.  None of this back door nonsense of defunding the normal education budget and putting that money back into the general fund, then making up the difference with the lottery money.  Continue funding the education budget at the same levels as before, then add on the extra money from the lottery (not replace some of the existing money with lottery money so you can blow it on some pork project).

[Marshal Dillon]

I was at a softball meeting tonight and found out that Bama has lost commitment Sydney Littlejohn to Louisiana Lafayette. Littlejohn is the pitcher from Texas that was supposed to fill Traina's place when Traina graduates. It seems more scholarship money was offered her by Louisiana Lafayette and Bama couldn't match it. The states that have a lottery can provide more scholarship money than those that don't. This was a big loss for the program. All I hear from the naysayers of the lotteries is that they don't really help education any, well I know better now.

Also, Denae Hayes suffered a broken nose from being hit by a softball in practice and will be limited at what she can do for awhile.

I have never understood why the voters are so stupid on the issue of the lottery. Mississippi has CASINOS for gosh sakes, which are much more dangerous to have due to influence from the Mafia. A lottery is impervious to that and is quite harmeless and don't tell Georgians the lottery does not work in education. They love it! I would like to hear from someone on this forum who is against the lottery. I would like to hear their specific reasons they are against it. Not looking to flame anyone, just would like to see why some folks are opposed. I think a lottery could pass the voters in our state if it is properly explained and especially with the need for more money in the state coffers.


 

OK great question and thanks MD for asking it. I will not flame any one at all. I just believe in my heart as a Preacher of the Gospel of Jesus Christ that gambling is wrong for all, simply because the Roman Soldiers gambled for Christs' clothing. Now, with this said yes, I am against the lottery because of how people use it also whether they have food or not they would still gamble. Let me add to this that, the Bible teaches me that if man drafts a law then we are to follow that law to the best of our understanding. So, if man voted the lottery in, I would only say I will abide by the law because that is the right thing to do.
Now this may not make any sense to you or others, but it is the feeling that I have in my heart. This is what I have to live with and I hope this does explain why. If you have any questions on my reply please, please feel free to tell me or others. RTR!

You live on the Georgia border, have you played the lottery?


 

[SUPERCOACH]

I was at a softball meeting tonight and found out that Bama has lost commitment Sydney Littlejohn to Louisiana Lafayette. Littlejohn is the pitcher from Texas that was supposed to fill Traina's place when Traina graduates. It seems more scholarship money was offered her by Louisiana Lafayette and Bama couldn't match it. The states that have a lottery can provide more scholarship money than those that don't. This was a big loss for the program. All I hear from the naysayers of the lotteries is that they don't really help education any, well I know better now.

Also, Denae Hayes suffered a broken nose from being hit by a softball in practice and will be limited at what she can do for awhile.

I have never understood why the voters are so stupid on the issue of the lottery. Mississippi has CASINOS for gosh sakes, which are much more dangerous to have due to influence from the Mafia. A lottery is impervious to that and is quite harmeless and don't tell Georgians the lottery does not work in education. They love it! I would like to hear from someone on this forum who is against the lottery. I would like to hear their specific reasons they are against it. Not looking to flame anyone, just would like to see why some folks are opposed. I think a lottery could pass the voters in our state if it is properly explained and especially with the need for more money in the state coffers.


 

OK great question and thanks MD for asking it. I will not flame any one at all. I just believe in my heart as a Preacher of the Gospel of Jesus Christ that gambling is wrong for all, simply because the Roman Soldiers gambled for Christs' clothing. Now, with this said yes, I am against the lottery because of how people use it also whether they have food or not they would still gamble. Let me add to this that, the Bible teaches me that if man drafts a law then we are to follow that law to the best of our understanding. So, if man voted the lottery in, I would only say I will abide by the law because that is the right thing to do.
Now this may not make any sense to you or others, but it is the feeling that I have in my heart. This is what I have to live with and I hope this does explain why. If you have any questions on my reply please, please feel free to tell me or others. RTR!

I hear what you are saying Ricky.  I thought and prayed about the moral aspect of gambling for a long time myself.  The conclusion that I came to, and what ultimately made me go against my granny's thoughts on things like this, is that the disciples cast lots to find out who would replace Judas.  It seems like there were other times in the bible were folks did things like that to allow God to decide the outcome.

Also, a similar issue was whether or not we should allow alcohol sales in our town.  She voted against it every time it came on the ballot.  It never passed until she and others in her generation passed away.  Eventually, on that one I came to the conclusion that Jesus would not have turned water into wine as his first miracle if he thought drinking wine was a sin.

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