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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do scholarships really cost a school money anyway? Maybe a marginal amount but nothing of note. If for example a Big 10 or SEC school has to offer 14 more women’s soccer scholarships in order to remain competitive, all they’ll do is just accept 14 more students into the school at full price to make up the difference (the application demand has exploded). Or raise tuition marginally to cover it. Or cut some other program that loses money and doesn’t bring much attention to the school. In the grand scheme of things, it’s a minor shell game and really isn’t gonna hit the pockets of these big schools.[/quote]

Scholarships come out of the Athletic Department budget and Big 10 and SEC schools are under pressure from state legislatures to hold the line on tuition.  I think the end result of this is going to be football sucking up an increasing amount of the athletic budgets as we move towards direct payments to schools. Right now the best football programs are running $30-$50 million dollar surpluses that fund the non-revenue sports. As we get closer to a free market, having to compensate football players and balance that compensation for title IX will shrink that number. Would anyone be surprised to see mens and womens basketball, football, and then enough women's sports to balance football with the rest just being club? If an AD has to pick between having a great mens swimming team and being able to pay for a top tier quarterback, swimming is in trouble [/quote]
That surplus is about to get bigger for the big conferences because they will be getting more tv revenue under the ncaa settlement. That’s why they are agreeing to offer all these additional scholarships for non-revenue sports. [/quote]

They're not agreeing to increase the number of scholarships.  They're agreeing to up the limit of scholarships allowed and to cap the roster size at that same number.  Huge difference.  Individual schools will then choose if they want to spend that extra money.  Most schools don't fund all their total allowed scholarships right now outside of football/mens basketball.  Even women's basketball, typically considered the #3 focus in most analysis, many don't fill their current allowed rosters/scholarships in many P4 schools, even if those scholarships are "funded".  You can look at Virginia school rosters and see that playing out already.  Max scholarship/roster is currently 15 for WBB.  Virginia Tech played last season with 12 players and made 2nd round of NCAA.  In 2022/23, they rostered 13 and made the final 4 losing to eventual national champs.  That's a current P4 school with arena sellouts last year, high end results, and their best player drafted into the WNBA, and they're actively not maxing their roster.  There may be some increases in certain non-revenue sports because of the semantics of how the revenue sharing works, but schools will pick and choose which sports to focus on beyond football and basketball, just like they do now.   The TV money has already been spent.  [/quote]

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