From an article titled "NCAA Football: A Brief History of NCAA Football Scholarships", it states:

"The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) was established in 1906 as the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States. The name was changed to its current name in 1910. There was no control over scholarships for any sport, but there was a requirement that a school's athletes had to be enrolled in the school they played for. Football schools could offer as many scholarships as they could afford and many had 150 players or more."

"1973 brought about the first limitations on football scholarships in order to free up money for women's sports after Title IX was passed by Congress in 1972 as part of the Equal Opportunity in Education Act. This caused the NCAA schools' presidents and athletic directors to push through a limit of 105 football scholarships. Additional reductions were made in 1978 (95) and again in 1992 which brought the limit to its present number of 85 and 63 for Division I-AA."

This seemed to work for a while, but now we are seeing a lack of parity resurfacing. What could the NCAA do to bring things back into line??

1) Have a football recruiting budget cap?
2) Limit on Football Analysts? Alabama has 12 such analysts on their staff, including 2 former head coaches.
3) None of this will help. There are the haves & have nots and that is life.