@keewart posted:Don't forget that the school may have a 'dollar amount budget' set for baseball scholarships, and it will take a large spreadsheet to figure out 25% - 100% for both instate and out of state COAs.
At the time when son was being recruited, I had heard of two full rides. 1) was mostly/all academic/need based; and 2) was to keep a lhp out of the draft. There was a poster on here years ago with twins, and received an offer for both sons, but one was 100% and the other 0% (this was to help with "counters").
As a parent, I never knew what other players on son's team were getting. It didn't start out this way, but son got a different scholly amount each year. When a player left college for the draft, it free up some money so son got more, with the understanding that the following year it would be less ..... to help with recruiting that summer. It was all in writing and we could refuse the offer.
I think that you are more correct that most in this thread. It's easy to think in terms of percentages when you are dealing with a private school and all tuitions are the same. The problem is that with state schools often not all tuition cost are the same. There are going to be some players that are in state and some are out of state. My 2024 has one D1 offer right now. When the coaches were discussing the money with us, they gave us a break down of the cost of tuition for an out of state student, the room and board, and all typical additional expenses. They then gave us a dollar amount for how much his athletic scholarship would cover (ie.. we are offering you $X to cover your expenses). This did not include any academic merit scholarship which they do allow to be stacked. They never spoke in terms of percentages, but rather dollar amounts. So, I believe that the 11.7 is not based upon a percentage but rather a set dollar amount of money that is set aside for baseball. I don't think that the coaches at this institution are balancing percentages but rather a set amount of budgeted money.