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Message: [QUOTE="HuskyHawk, post: 3227117, member: 1414"] Yep and that’s what they’d do. I think it’s really opportunity cost more than actual expense. I totally agree with that. But those 170 wouldn’t all be full freight out of state students with zero aid. Even in your example of department A charging department B $700 for a room, that’s all just accounting. The cost of using that room is zero. It simply moves from one place as a credit and is debited elsewhere. Paying the $200 downtown is an actual cost, so your university is mind bogglingly stupid to structure things in this way. When I talk about costs, I don’t mean credits on one P&L and debits on another P&L within the same university. That’s not an actual cost to the school. I mean you cut a check/EFT that went outside of the university. There is no way in the world that an extra scholarship results in an actual external expenditure of the amount that is “charged” to the AD for that student. I’m sure a whole lot of it is some pro-rata internal service charge despite no or minimal actual increase in utilization. I also completely accept your premise that the marginal true cost of athletic scholarships is higher at a smaller private school than it is at UConn. I imagine at a school like Ohio State with 55K undergrads it’s very low. It’s probably pretty high at Duke. [/QUOTE]