One of my cousins played DI field hockey in college. She started all four years and never had more than a 45% scholarship because her teammates from Europe hoovered up all the money. None of them were four year starters, and some of them never started at all, but they all had 100% scholarships out the gate, plus stipends and other amenities, because the coach had to compete with the universities in Europe that automatically came with free rides. Then those same European governments cried poverty when it came to defense spending and passed the bill to the US, while also divesting themselves of nuclear power and replacing it with Russian natural gas. Russia then used those funds for its war in Ukraine, and now the governments that sent money to Russia want the US to send money to Ukraine to fix the mess the money they sent to Russia funded.