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Take a fully funded women’s soccer team at a college that cost $25K a year for tuition, room and board. You will have 1 head coach ($100,000) and 2 Asst coaches ($60,000) and the team’s share of administrative expenses - locker rooms, uniforms, shoes, training staff, programs, office space, field maintenance, time from athletic director, meals, athletic study room etc. call that another $150,000.  So, figure $300-350K hard costs.  Add another $50,000 for travel.  Ballpark $350-400K out of pocket a year.  Let’s say there are 28 kids on the roster. There’s often more and sometimes you could find teams with 25 or so.  28 is not a bad guesstimate.  Fully funded that would mean on average everyone pays 50% of the attendance cost or $12,500 per athlete.  That’s $350K.  The team will raise $25K in advertising, ticket sales, etc.   So, out of pocket to a college a fully funded team so close to break even.   Most Div 1s are not fully funded though.  Cut your scholarships from 14 to 7 and now the school is putting six figures into its pocket. 
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This math starts off with some wrong assumptions. First, scholarships are calculated off of the full *out-of-state* cost of attendance. For example, at Maryland this year that is $48,556; at Georgetown it's around $72,000. For a fully-funded program, multiply those numbers times 14 (women) or 9.9 (men), so $680k-1m for women and $480-712k for men. So state schools have an advantage when they recruit in-state players because their scholarships are calculated based on out-of-state tuition, but are paid out as dollars. At Maryland, the full in-state cost is just less than half the out-of-state number above, so they can have two MD scholarship players for one "scholarship" of their 14. Georgetown (private) can't do this, and also can't combine need-based aid (with which they are pretty generous) with athletic scholarships--that's not allowed.

Hope this helps anyone who's approaching this process for the first time.[/quote]

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