Here’s an interesting story on college athletic scholarships and how the dream of many parents and students doesn’t always match up with athletic scholarship reality.  The average athletic scholarship is usually a single-digit percentage of total college cost.

Men received 57 percent of all scholarship money, but in 11 of the 14 sports with men’s and women’s teams, the women’s teams averaged higher amounts per athlete.

On average, the best-paying sport was neither football nor men’s or women’s basketball. It was men’s ice hockey, at $21,755. Next was women’s ice hockey ($20,540).

The lowest overall average scholarship total was in men’s riflery ($3,608), and the lowest for women was in bowling ($4,899). Baseball was the second-lowest men’s sport ($5,806).

If you know parents who are banking on junior’s athletic talent to pay for college, send them the link to this article.  Junior may be good, but he may not be that good.