Further Clarification on B1G Cost of Attendance Proposal
More from the Big10 on Delany's proposal to add the "laundry money" back into athletic scholarships:
http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/26992/clarifying-big-tens-scholarship-upgrade-plan
The biggest revelation is that it would apply to all student athletes, not just revenue sports.
they had to do this. there is no way to do it in compliance with Title IX without including non-revenue sports.
but there was a lot of speculation about it finding ways around it... like brian's article on the front page right now.
Sure there would be. Almost all women's sports are equivalency sports, so you could increase 97 of the scholarships that are split up into FCOA scholarships. So each partial recipient gets a little bit more money.
I'm also not 100% positive that it would be a Title IX violation anyway (although I doubt any school would take a chance). I haven't checked the numbers but I doubt there is the same amount of money spent on scholarships for men and women. Don't most compliance efforts revolve around counting the number of athletes? Since there are 97 full scholarships given to men plus 18 (partial) for hockey that's a lot of scholarship ground to make up even ignoring all the other equivalency men's sports.
Edit: After reading the article more closely it says that it would only affect athletes on a full scholarship. So now the question becomes, are there really the same number of full scholarships given to men and women? I doubt it.
If a school funds an entire host of head-count sports, it's 51 women and 98 men, obviously that probably fluctuates year to year for actual numbers, but that's the limit.
that full athletic scholarships don't already cover the "full cost of attendance". On the other hand I'm pretty sure it would be legal for the schools to direct athletes in the direction of other scholarships to make up the difference.
I had a full academic scholarship and I found additional scholarship to get as close to the full cost of attendance as possible.
It's also legal to take the full CoA as federal loans. Basically you can sign two or three pieces of paper and have the money in a week at a ridiculously low interest rate.