Originally Posted by
Dawg06
Full COA is different for each school. For Tech, full COA is $3,429.
This year Conference USA gave each member institution $225,000 to help cover COA, and C-USA will do the same again next year. That's $450,000 from C-USA over 2 years to help fund COA stipends.
This year McClelland decided to offer only a partial COA stipend of $2,000 to 4 sports (football, MBB, WBB, volleyball) and nothing to our other 12 sports. With scholarship limits of 85 for football, 13 for MBB, 15 for WBB, and 12 for volleyball, McClelland allocated for 125 partial COA stipends this year, which sums to $250,000.
With $225,000 from C-USA, that means McClelland only came up with $25,000 for COA stipends this year. In reality, that $25,000 is likely a little inflated because I doubt all 4 sports filled the maximum number of scholarships.
Counting all 16 sports, Tech can offer a max of 210.8 scholarships, which would've required a total of $722,833.20 to fully fund full COA stipends this year. Accounting for the $225,000 supplement from C-USA, fully funding COA stipends would've required McClelland to come up with $497,833.20, but he didn't even though Arkansas served it to him on a platter by moving our game from Little Rock. He made sure he got a raise, though.