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Pretty important to distinguish between "full ride" and "full tuition".
I've never heard of an RMAC team providing a "full ride", which includes tuition, books, meals, fees, and rooming.
Many teams provide a "full tuition" scholarship to their best players and target recruits. I'm not sure how the NCAA sets the guidelines for how much a "full scholarship" equals, but that is the amount that is applied to however many scholarships a team or conference allows, up to 36.
Schools have a number of ways to massage how the numbers are applied, including using non-athletic scholarship money.
In any event, both CSUP and Mines have found ways to maximize their funding, and the results show.
Someone earlier posted that Mesa is in the top 2 in providing football resources. This is not true, and was borne out by the public commentary surrounding an evaluation of moving to FCS, where they stated they were around 18-20 scholarships. That is a woeful number given the size of Mesa and what they have to offer student-athletes. It also is substantially less than Mines, CSUP, and perhaps others.
It is not always true that money breeds success, but if teams want to be in the Top 10-15 every year, you better adequately fund the program.
And Northern Colorado is the perfect example of how being cheap, including poor coaching staff depth, produces really ugly results....
I've never heard of an RMAC team providing a "full ride", which includes tuition, books, meals, fees, and rooming.
Many teams provide a "full tuition" scholarship to their best players and target recruits. I'm not sure how the NCAA sets the guidelines for how much a "full scholarship" equals, but that is the amount that is applied to however many scholarships a team or conference allows, up to 36.
Schools have a number of ways to massage how the numbers are applied, including using non-athletic scholarship money.
In any event, both CSUP and Mines have found ways to maximize their funding, and the results show.
Someone earlier posted that Mesa is in the top 2 in providing football resources. This is not true, and was borne out by the public commentary surrounding an evaluation of moving to FCS, where they stated they were around 18-20 scholarships. That is a woeful number given the size of Mesa and what they have to offer student-athletes. It also is substantially less than Mines, CSUP, and perhaps others.
It is not always true that money breeds success, but if teams want to be in the Top 10-15 every year, you better adequately fund the program.
And Northern Colorado is the perfect example of how being cheap, including poor coaching staff depth, produces really ugly results....
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