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Message: [QUOTE="SUFan44, post: 5463528, member: 39"] Football used to be a head count sport, meaning a max of 85 players were able to be on scholarship. Theoretically, schools could have given all 85 partial scholarships, but only 85 athletes could receive athletic aid. Now, with roster limits in place and no head count rules, theoretically you could give partial scholarships to a number of players - especially high academic kids who could qualify for academic aid - and spread your athletic aid across more students. This is as long as the University allows it -- if you gave all of the kids who warranted academic aid and filled them up to full scholarship with athletic aid, you probably could get to 105 full rides without adding any additional $ from an athletic aid perspective. A lot of accounting questions in terms of how aid is counted, but this might be a way to maneuver things and gain an edge without losing any $ to give real money to athletes through revenue sharing. [/QUOTE]