| Every Division 1 College Football team receives | | | | the athletes caught versus the recipients is |
| eighty five football scholarships per year to work | | | | grossly incomparable. |
| with. With 85 scholarships available to a NCAA | | | | What about tuition and books? Well, books are a |
| football team, it's easy to imagine the team being | | | | joke most athletic departments keep libraries of |
| made almost completely up of guys who are | | | | used books that all the athletes have access to. |
| getting a free and easy ride through school. That | | | | Not to mention, they either have mandatory |
| is obviously not the case. It is increasingly more | | | | study times with free tutors where there are |
| difficult to get and retain your football scholarship | | | | plenty of books and "practice tests". So |
| through all four years of college. Understand that | | | | purchasing books is not a priority of a starting or |
| the 85 is split among four to five classes when | | | | back up linebacker for that matter. Tuition, now |
| you consider redshirts and that is total. Not 85 per | | | | tuition is a little more difficult. The average public |
| year. So you have essentially 20 to 25 | | | | school with in state tuition is not that expensive |
| scholarships per year to work with. Now the | | | | so there are a number of ways to pay for this. |
| coaches look at the potential depth chart for each | | | | Partial athletic scholarships along with academic |
| position and have to weight the potential for | | | | and volunteer scholarships or grants can cover a |
| landing that big recruit who has to receive a full | | | | majority of this. Tuition deferment also allows the |
| ride. It is much like balancing your check book at | | | | student to delay the payment and use the funds |
| the end of the month. X amount here Y amount | | | | from there "job" to pay for the rest. Private |
| here and so on...Or is it? There has long been the | | | | schools tuition is often six to ten times as much |
| ability of coaches and athletic departments to find | | | | and is a completely different animal when it |
| the resources to compensate or should we say | | | | comes to athletic scholarships and football |
| make life easier for certain athletes. They are | | | | scholarships. |
| often given easy side jobs to make up for the | | | | So as you can see not getting a full football |
| partial scholarship they were granted. Yes, | | | | scholarship is not the end of the world. If you are |
| students have been caught for not showing up to | | | | creative and intuitive enough to find other means |
| jobs and still getting paid but the percentage of | | | | they are definitely out there. |
