College athletic departments that are including additional scholarship funding this school year as part of the NCAA's new full-cost-of-attendance provisions have had to figure out a process for the payments.
Controversy has followed along the way. Football coaches at Virginia Tech and Cincinnati created a stir last week when they said they were considering withholding some of the stipends for disciplinary reasons such as missing team meetings, committing academic fraud or getting called for a personal foul penalty.
Some schools have been accused of inflating their cost of attendance estimates for all students to be able to use a higher value of the new scholarship money as a recruiting tool for athletes.