No Athletic Director is going to risk federal funds termination due to title IX violations.
Most of the current high school seniors who are going to have athletic scholarships in equivalent sports have already signed a NLI. This means that the talent pool for adding additional athletes is much weaker. The best way for a college to meet title IX funding requirements for this year is to follow Virginia Tech’s lead and give a COA increase to all equivalent athletes. In later years the colleges that give COA increases will recruit better athletes than colleges that do not.