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Help me understand.......since Stanford provides free tuition, room and board to students whose parents make less than a certain amount ($75K?), could we save on athletic scholarships by not providing them to students whose parents make less than $75K? The athletic scholarship probably has some additional perks, but if we got in a one year squeeze, is this a way to help address it?

At one level, that is simply called being a walk on. Stanford has a few of those each year. There are some rules that limit how far that goes, which is specifically aimed at stopping schools from having 120 football players on scholarship while only having 85 on football scholarships.

The key rule is that if a student is recruited and receives any financial aid from the institution, then they bcome a "counter" the moment they appear in a game.

There are a bunch of rules that define whether or not you are "recruited". For most of our walk ons, Stanford works hard to make sure that the student in question is not "recruited". For better players, not recruiting them will mean not getting them.

All in all, preventing what you describe is exactly the intent of the rules.

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Help me understand.......since Stanford provides free tuition, room and board to students whose parents make less than a certain amount ($75K?), could we save on athletic scholarships by not providing them to students whose parents make less than $75K? The athletic scholarship probably has some additional perks, but if we got in a one year squeeze, is this a way to help address it?

At one level, that is simply called being a walk on. Stanford has a few of those each year. There are some rules that limit how far that goes, which is specifically aimed at stopping schools from having 120 football players on scholarship while only having 85 on football scholarships.

The key rule is that if a student is recruited and receives any financial aid from the institution, then they bcome a "counter" the moment they appear in a game.

There are a bunch of rules that define whether or not you are "recruited". For most of our walk ons, Stanford works hard to make sure that the student in question is not "recruited". For better players, not recruiting them will mean not getting them.

All in all, preventing what you describe is exactly the intent of the rules.