JMO, Please provide the NCAA rule cite that supports your statement. I have been advised by coaches from at least three different institutions, as well as by an NCAA compliance officer at a fourth (in Virginia), that academic money which meets the NCAA definition of academic money does not count against the 11.7 EVEN if the baseball player also receives athletic money. I believe the definition of academic money is:
15.5.3.2.2.1 Academic Honor Awards. Academic honor awards that are part of an institution’s
normal arrangements for academic scholarships, based solely on the recipient’s high school record and awarded independently of athletics interests and in amounts consistent with the pattern of all such awards made by the institution, are exempt from an institution’s equivalency computation, provided the recipient was ranked in the upper 10 percent of the high school graduating class or achieved a cumulative grade-point average of at least 3.500 (based on a maximum of 4.000) or a minimum ACT sum score of 105 or a minimum SAT score of 1200 (critical reading and math).