(04-27-2014 06:23 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  

(04-27-2014 02:55 PM)TOPSTRAIGHT Wrote:  arkstatefan, what if the stipend applies to football only?Big if-I know but would have less of a "tidal wave" effect on all other Div. 1 schools. Football drives the bus we all know.No specifics have been passed.

Too much money and negative PR to not include hoops.

And for the P5 athletic budgets, BBall scholarship are too small an incremental cost over FB scholarships to leave them out.

For the Go5 conferences, if we can get an advantage in BBall over a large number of FCS and non-FB conferences that have one or a few BBall powers but a lot of members that would rather not pay cost of attendance scholarships, we could well be better off with the rule being all-in for all scholarship limits rather than sport by sport.

For men's subsidy sports with dollar-count instead of head-count, an AD can keep giving the same scholarship dollars, its just officially a (say) "2/5" instead of "1/2" scholarship. And for women's sports, it makes it easier to get the Title IX offset the Men's FB and BBall scholarship money if the benchmark full scholarship level is the same as in Men's FB and BBall.