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[quote=Anonymous]It will greatly depend on the school as different schools will have different scholarship budgets for different teams.  The NCAA has max numbers per sport and in certain sports the scholarships must by full rides while in others the scholarships can be divided up.  The numbers are different for D2 schools.

Full ride requirements are in football (85) though most big programs will carry about 100, men’s basketball (13). Women’s basketball (15), women’s volleyball (12), women’s gymnastics (8), and women’s tennis (12).  These are head count sports.  A school does not have to offer these numbers, but the offers they make in these sports are full scholarships.

In terms of numbers - likely Track and Field, which is combined with x-country, is the toughest.  A full funded program (and basically no programs are fully funded) could have 12.6 for men and 18 for women.  There are certainly cross-overs between x-country and long distance track runners, but it would not be surprising to see a track program dividing up 5 or 6 scholarships over 40-50 athletes.

There certainly are sports that might divide up 1 scholarship among 25 athletes.

The real cost to an athletic department is in program hard costs.  Swimming is in the cross-hairs now.  Maintaining pools is expensive.  Track and field is expensive because of the travel costs for big teams.

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