Estimated probability of competing in college athletics

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1 hour ago, RYou said:

I'm not so sure of that.  Both sports are allowed to offer partial scholarships.  D1 Men's XC/ track has a max of 12.6 scholarships to partial out while the women get 18.  Like wrestling, few get the full ride.  At 50%, that's 15 men and 36 women with financial aid.  In wrestling, few get 50%, most are more like 25%, particularly those with hoards in the room.

Women's XC/Track can easily mete out 18 full scholarships and field a complete and competitive team across all events.

In almost every sport with men's and women's teams, the women get far more scholarships to offer, mainly to make up for the volume football gets allocated, 85. 

ex. - men's basketball - 13, women's -15; men's gymnastics - 6.3, women's - 12; men's swimming - 9.9, women's - 14

And (men's) wrestling can mete out 9.9 scholarships. Very unfortunately the statistical reality is neither 12.6/18 or 9.9 happens at the majority of institutions because both are poor sports. I'm not trying to argue, I'm just pointing out that anything other than FB or MBB is a struggle to allocate funding. It is the hill all olympic sports have been climbing as long as the scholarship game has existed. At least NIL is helping to defray some of those costs by essentially creating a legal, local version of The Bag Man for sports that did not previously have such a figure. It may only be a pair of shoes and some clothes or maybe a free Ford Focus lease or heavily subsized rent at an off-campus apartment, but it is something.