One of the big problems with college scholarships in the last 20 years, was the implementation of title IX forced colleges to give equal numbers and funding to both womens and mens sports. There are way more men interested and competitive in sports than there are women. This results in women who were bench warmers getting full rides to prestigious institutions while state champions in lesser funded sports like wrestling can't get any scholarship at all. It also results in huge new softball stadiums for girls in which on a couple of dozen spectators ever sit. I think schools should get out of the athletic business completely. Scholarships should be based on academic skills and/or need. It makes sense to have intermural leagues where students compete, but it should be secondary to actual academics.