Quote Originally Posted by CajunAmos View Post
I thought this was sport specific, and depended on the total amount of athletic scholarship money received. I thought they set a number, and if your athletic scholarship money was less than the total acceptable, then other scholarships could be used to make up the difference. I know baseball, with only 11.7 scholarships available for a 35 man roster, has folks who are on academic scholarships.
If they have an academic scholarship from the school it is counted as an athletic scholarship. TOPS is from the state, not the school, so it is allowable. There are lots of academic scholarships out there that ARE allowable and lots of partial scholarship sports staffs that are very good at finding them and helping their players get them. But if it is from the University or a booster, it is a no-no. I am very certain this is true if the athlete receives any athletic scholarship money.

It is possible that such scholarships are allowable for true walk on players; but you can bet that the NCAA is watching very closely if a contributing player is getting money from the school in any way that might be seen as an attempt to circumvent the scholarship limits.