First things I want to say is that I am not disagreeing with the OP. Just giving a different perspective.

Daughter is a middle infielder. 100% athletic scholarship to a P4 school (ACC). I was somewhat surprised they did not include some academic money in the full scholarship. Daughter has 4.5 GPA.

She went on 4 college visits and was offered two 100% athletic scholarships. The other two Big Ten schools offered 80% athletic scholarships at the college visit. Not one of the schools offered any academic money out of the 4 schools she went on visits to. She was also offered multiple full ride scholarships over the phone but she never went on a visits to those schools.