In 2011, Clemson head baseball coach Jack Leggett began pushing Clemson University to use the Academic Common Market as a way to help student-athletes, not from the state of South Carolina and not on full scholarship, pay their tuition.
Baseball scholarships are not like football or basketball scholarships, the NCAA only allows Division I baseball programs to have 11.7 scholarships to distribute to 27 players. The kicker, players must be given at least 25 percent scholarship money.
At Clemson, that means the majority of the roster has to find some other means of paying its way through school.