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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]

Incorrect. The calculation is done based on the Cost of Attendance for each player. A D1 women's soccer team has 14 scholarships. They cannot just grab all in-state players and fully fund everyone.

Here is how the math works.

Player 1 is out of state at a $50,000 tuition. She gets a full ride ($50,000) so the program counts her as one 1 counter against the 14.
Player 2 is in state at a $20,000 tuition. She get a 50% offer ($10,000) so the program counts her as .5 counter against the 14.
Player 3 is in state at a $20,000 tuition. She gets a 100% offer ($20,000) so the program counts her as 1 counter against the 14.
Player 4 is out of state at a $50,000 tuition. She gets a 25% offer ($12,500) so the program counts her as .25 counter against the 14.

The program has used 2.75 of the 14 scholarships. Yes it could have saved money (a lot) by offering only in state players but either way cannot exceed 14 scholarships.[/quote]

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