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And it just got worse. 11.7 equivalency scholarships for (up to) 32 PLAYERS. "For '22, the roster limit is set at 40, the number of players on scholarship is up from 27 to 32 and there is no 25 percent scholarship minimum." Feb 4, 2022

OK, well that I can agree with, though I'm not sure we've ever given a THIRD string punter a full ride. SECOND string, maybe... But I've made a bunch of posts stating my opinion that all sports, and AT LEAST baseball, should be "head-count" scholarship sports, not equivalency. But the biggest...

Baseball is 11.7 equivalencies. Softball is 12 equivalencies (I was told 14, but that is obviously incorrect). The minimum award is 25% of tuition, so the practical mathematical impact is that you rarely see anyone get more than a 50% scholarship.

Yes, and I believe that women's softball has a higher "equivalency" number of scholarships than men's baseball as well, I have a friend whose daughter plays D-I softball on scholarship.

"More women's sports" is not the issue. The number of scholarships IS the issue. And there is no women's sport equivalent for football (85 scholarships). As for the difference between "head count" scholarship sports (football, basketball) and "equivalency" scholarship sports (everything...

Is women's soccer a full varsity sport or a club sport? If it's already varsity, we could possibly reinstate men's swimming too.

Women's softball probably allows us to reinstate men's golf, purely from a Title IX standpoint. Would love to see us add both men's and women's soccer too. Leaving men's swimming as the remaining program that Maggard axed in the 1990s.