Originally Posted by
jjh1080
Sorry about the loosing vs losing, was in a hurry when I typed it up.
There are some ties with the scholarships from alumni. The alumni are giving to scholarships all over the country, all the time. Many top colleges have alumni funds that go to sports only folks. The college I went to would not give many full scholarships to many football players because of an alumni fund that was set up for athletics only. This way they could give twice as many (partial) scholarships and the rest was paid for with the alumni funded scholarships. I got them my freshman and sophomore year. Once I became a junior (starter) I got a full ride. I believe for football we got about 60 scholarships, 35 went to full rides and 50 partial rides. Those 50 that got partial rides got alumni scholarships. The alumni office controlled the funds (did the fundraising) and did all the paper work to keep it straight and legal. Word was that the college had about 5 big givers who would come up with some extra donations anytime extra funds were needed. Here is an interesting thing, the college got donations to help provide tutors for students. Take a wild guess who used the tutors the most. But the funding was all legit and they ran a legit program, the money went to tutors. That is all I'll say about that.
The whole point is, the big time colleges can get around just about anything they want to when it comes to things like this. I've heard that "walk-ons", the guys who sit way at the end of the bench, usually end up getting some sort of scholarship for making the basketball team. I'm sure they keep it all legit, there are ways to work around things. Everything is like a tax code, you create the law and someone will find a way around it.