Stipends are outside the scholarship limits, which are only for tuition, fees, books, R&B. Most schools are already at the limits if the team is fully funded. The NCAA and some of the conferences are leaving it to the schools to decide how much the stipends can be worth. If the NCAA doesn’t care if a school gives a $2000 stipend or a $6000 one, why would it care if it gave everyone the full stipend? It pretty much said to the Power 5 that they could set the stipend amount. Some are giving more to OOS students
If you have a full scholarship student get $4000 to cover extra meals, laundry, travel, etc., and you have two 50% scholarship students who also get 50% merit scholarships, wouldn’t those two students also have a $4000/each need for personal expenses just like the 100% scholarship student? Many of the partial athletic scholarship students are just as needy as the full scholarship sports kids, and are ineligible for institutional need based aid. They still need to do their laundry.