One more thing: At the risk of stating the obvious, I believe generally that players offered athletic money tend to be better players than those who are not; and, because of that, they tend as a group to end up being the ones who see the most innings in games. At times, I hear non-scholarship players (and their parents) blaming coaches' bias in favor of scholarship players as a principal reason for that. More often than not, what is actually at work is that the player on the field is the better player more consistently.