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Athletic/Academic money question

BE Big Ed10+ posts
2013 got 45% athletic and 39% Academic offer from a great DII school he targeted. He officially applied and the acceptance letter came back with an Academic scholarship of 54%. This is more than when his HS faxed the college his SAT scores and grades in late summer. Coach told us at that time we would have to pay the difference roughly 5,000.

With the academic money going up, can/do coaches change the athletic money when the official signing day comes around in Nov in cases such as this? Is this a common practice?

How should I address this if this is the case?
Mark Wall
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Buckeye 2015Buckeye 201510,000+ posts
I have a friend who's son signed at a D1 school and is currently a freshman. In their dealings with schools...and there were several....he said they asked the coaches/recruiters/etc to deal with real numbers....meaning dollars, not percentages. He said that they had no complaints from anyone when they asked this, though initially everyone was talking in percentages. Doing it this way took all the guesswork out of it and make their lives a lot easier.
OD Or Dad10+ posts
To answer your first question. Athletic % should not go down if academic % goes up, unless the % is over 100. Regarding the 2nd post: my son's school talked in dollars instead of percentages. During his first 2 years all his schooling was completely covered. This year included a big tuition hike, which wasn't covered by a the fixed dollar amount. The percentage approach covers increases in cost.
Rick at Informed AthleteRick at Informed Athlete5,000+ posts
Mark,

As long as your son satisfies one of the four criteria to be able to exempt an academic scholarship from counting toward the team limit (which he probably does if they're offering him that much academic money), the coach shouldn't have any reason to reduce the athletic scholarship.

The criteria to be able to exempt an academic scholarship in Div. II are 1) upper 20 percent of HS grad class, 2) 3.5 cumulative GPA, 3) 100 ACT sum score, or 4) 1050 SAT score on critical reading and math.

Congrats and good luck to your son!

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