From the Daily Advertiser:

Except at Vanderbilt.

"It's a largely private versus public funding concern," SEC assistant commissioner for compliance Matt Boyer said. "There is a difference between private and public when it comes to financial aid available. The privates can offer more of those types of awards. They can offer a full scholarship, but only use 25 percent of it toward the 11.7. They can deflate their athletic aid, whereas their public neighbor down the street might not have that much of the non-athletic aid. So, that's where it can get unfair competitively."

Unfair maybe, but within the rules, which just got stretched.

Former head coach Ron Polk speaks at the Ring Of Honor Inductee Ceremony. Mississippi State played Youngstown State on Saturday, February 16, 2019. Photo by Keith Warren
"Vanderbilt is doing it perfectly legally," former Mississippi State and Georgia coach Ron Polk said. "They're recruiting kids of high academic standards (for aid scholarships), then they use the 11.7 on kids who don't meet those standards. But if I'm playing a private school, I'd feel like I've got the payroll of the Tampa Bay Rays playing the New York Yankees. They've got 30 scholarships. I had 11.7. These private schools have it made with their baseball programs."