D3 schools can’t offer scholarships only grant-aid which is minimal. And the majority of D3 schools are private so the tuition even for in-state kids is usually anywhere from $15-40k per year. So the schools see easy money, and these kids gladly pay that to say “I played college football.” Kind of delusional tho. Imagine paying almost $200 grand to talk about your college football days just to have everyone around you roll their eyes and laugh on the inside.
They can't offer athletic scholarships. There are tons of kids getting a shit ton of other scholarship/grant money.
I meant athletic scholarships since we’re talking about sports. But yeah you’re right. The thing is tho how many D3 kids do you know that had a significant portion of their tuition cost covered by any of those? There are some, but it’s the exception to the rule. And most high-value scholarships at those schools are for academics or religion. If you’re a D3 kid who wants to play football and you get $10,000 worth of various grants and scholarships, but tuition/housing per year is $40,000 then it doesn’t mean much.
Quite a lot actually, if you mean significant being over 50%. $10K was on the pretty low end. If you only got $10K you weren't doing much right in high school.
Spoiler Gonna use nicknames here- this was about 4 to 5 years ago: My female roommate Jill had a friend name Jamie that worked for State U Athletics. She became very close with Big Guy who had lots of charisma and she met at donor events. She thought Big Guy was her boyfriend but Big Guy basically just banged her out whenever he wanted and of course would never commit. Big Guy wouldn't even let her stay the night at his place and yes Jamie kept coming back for months I'm talking like 18+ months on end. Jill dragged me out to dinner one night where we met up with Jamie and Big Guy, Jill drunkenly had to tell Big Guy that I once back in that day was quite the football player. That shit was embarrassing as fuck- meanwhile while out at dinner all of fucking Ohio had to keep coming over to take pictures with Big Guy. Seriously these ppl are losers he's a fucking washed up player who moonlights on local tv part time to talk about State U sports. Jamie just loved this attention - Jill and I were less than thrilled. Fast Forward probably 2 months- Jill is an expert at government grants and non profits. Jamie convinces her to meet up with Big Guy and his close friend the Bishop at a local bar for drinks. Jamie tells Jill that I can't come and Big Guy won't tell her why she can't come either. Jill is very skeptical and really unsure of the situation as to why these two have to meet with her. Jamie tells Jill that they are starting a church based non profit that will be focused at helping at risk youth, they are interested in hiring Jill as a consultant. Jamie begs Jill to take the meeting basically convincing her that if she doesn't then Big Guy will get rid of her. Jill begrudgingly agrees Jill meets with the Bishop and Big Guy at a High Street bar. The meeting is immediately odd because they want Jill to swear to not tell anyone about what is about to be said, she agrees. The Bishop essentially takes over the conversation then saying that Big Guy is the front of the business and he's running it, everyone will trust Big Guy. He wants Jill to set up up a 501(C)3 and they apply for every federal and state government grant possible. Bishop explains his vision of a school to help at risk youth based around football. Bishop tells Jill that he will pay for her work out of the grant money that she brings in, he will also pay his coaches from this Grant money. He also needs the grant money to pay for players, equipment, etc for his team. Jill refuses and tells him these grants don't exist, misuse of funds, etc. Bishop grows increasingly angry with Jill but he won't let up. Jill is now feeling very threatened as the mood at the table has soured significantly. Bishop won't let it go, he keeps trying every angle possible but this plan just isn't going to work according to Jill. Bishop turns his anger to Big Guy, pushes him, leaves the table in a fit a rage and walks out. Big Guy chases after him leaving Jill at the bar alone. They do not come back but stick Jill with their bill which apparently they had been there long before she got there and ran up a tab. These dudes fucking suck, Jill was so freaked out that night she had me come out to that bar to get her home, she wouldn't leave her chair. Bishop scared the fuck out of her, she told Jamie to never bring Big Guy around her again and was really mad she wanted her to be involved in fraud Big Guy shortly after this night is discovered by Jamie to have multiple and I mean multiple "GF's"- they actually formed a group chat because one "GF" seemed to know another and it ended up with like 8 girls. They tried to confront him about it. Big Guy could care less and cut them all loose and moved on to the next girls. Jamie married the first guy who looked at her afterwards literally it was her fitness instructor. Big Guy last I heard was dating another TV personality I might be missing details but fuck that Bishop guy Probably wont live up to the hype unfortunately after I wrote it out its not as good as I thought
After further research, it appears Copts are the only orthodox sect that calls their head of church “Pope”…the rest seem to use “Patriarch” while not at all relevant to this thread, fun information! Thank you Joe Withabee for putting me on this path of knowledge.
I happened to know that little factoid, the usage of the title Pope has a pretty interesting history which I went down a rabbit hole learning about at some point.
There are several D3’s that will offer all sorts of “academic” scholarships in order to entice recruits to go there.