FB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[Gregory Sager]

Well, I guess that I shouldn't be surprised ... except that WIAC fans keep insisting that the tuition and r&b at their schools has gotten ridiculously expensive, to the point where an outsider would figure that the cost was now too prohibitive for an 18-year-old would-be student-athlete to sit around and twiddle his thumbs for a year.

[DriftlessDuhawk]

Grey shirting is still 100% a thing as it was pitched to me about a decade ago and to family members in recent years. The pitch is that you would just save one class, required by your major to graduate, for your 5th fall semester so that you do not have to pay for a whole semester and only pay about 2k.

I've heard from a number of D3 coaches that one of the reasons they are in favor of the 5 for 5 is that they feel that it would level the playing field with the WIAC because of the inability to grey shirt.

As a for in state tuition, I am not sure what most of those people are complaining about. Tuition is still in the 10-12k range per year at all of the WIAC schools. If a kid lives off campus and doesn't buy a meal plan, they can get out with a bachelor's degree for 40k? Seems like the best deal around to me...