You're not wrong. But let me just say this.
Football (85 scholarships) has no female counterpart. Men's/Women's basketball are headcount sports that are equivalent.
EVERYTHING ELSE is an equivalency sport.
Currently, women's softball (IF WE HAD IT) allows for more equivalency scholarships than baseball does. However, if you got to headcount, you have a rough equivalency between the sports.
As for the scholarships themselves, the key is to endow them. UM has long had the "Living Scholars" program (not sure if it still has the same name now). One of my roommates at UM was a diver, he would go out to one of the football halftimes to meet his "Living Scholar" donor, shake hands, and acknowledge the contribution in front of tens of thousands of people.
Each endowed scholarship requires a donation that exceeds $1 million. So, yeah, do the math, if we have the money "now" for 11.7 baseball scholarships, and we "need" to fund 32, that's between $20 million and $40 million to raise.
Yes. We need to raise more money if the NCAA changes the rules. Understood.
