That doesn't bring better students to the University. There are hundreds of students getting tuition waivers for athletics. The athletic program has a Redbird Education and Scholarship Fund with a million dollars in reserve and can afford to remodel it's facilities all the time. It can afford to pay for its own tuition waivers and they can be converted over to academic scholarships. You want better students, you got to do something.
Departments have money in their foundation accounts.
They could match those scholarships. You'll get better students if you're serious about it. I don't think people are serious about it. We have the worst in the state. 20-1 was the last one I saw which was a couple years ago.