The Realist wrote:

---

Kolohead, you are right that there are far fewer opportunities for boys than girls in American universities - due I think to their equality laws - whereby they have to give the same number / value of scholarships to boys and girls, and most of the boys scholarships go to baseball and American football players. Even a full scholarship for a girl will rarely include spending money and the cost of flights. 

---

The girls do very well in terms of fully paid scholarships because of tittle IX; any educational institution offering sporting opportunities must do equally for both sexes. It has made a massive difference in terms of increasing the number of women playing college sports and as a consequence many athletes get an education they would not have, so bizarrely a lot of positives for female students. There are very few female sports that will make you incredibly wealthy but tennis has definitely kept the wolf from the door for the likes of Nicole Gibbs, Danielle Collins and a few others. 

US College sport is what it is and the ethics behind it put any complaints about tennis funding in the UK to shame. The generally affluent middle class white kids on the tennis scholarships, whose parents paid for individual coaching as children, get their scholarships from income generated by the profitable sports, football and basketball. They bring dollars through large TV audiences coast to coast on Saturdays, match day attendances, match day food sales and generally billions of dollars through merchandising. The footballers and basketball players are elite athletes you can't teach height as they say in basketball (or electric pace and all round athletic ability) more often than not they are from deprived backgrounds, scholarships are for one year and don't cover surgery if you get injured, thousands of kids do and they are done. 

I don't think going to the US on a tennis scholarship is a win win for boys, realistically those that stand a chance of playing futures successfully at the end will get an opportunity. You literally have to arrive and dominate one of the good programmes in a power conference if the ATP tour is your target. I don't think good tennis programmes in good but lesser conference will give that opportunity although Joe Salisbury is making a good crack at doubles having finished in Memphis. Getting a degree from one of the Ivy league colleges, Stanford, Cal Poly adds a different context altogether. 

All the US colleges in the London Tennis tube video of the Stars and Stripes introduction video offer good tennis opportunities without exception although, not all in power conference tennis. On the girls side all are very strong programmes aspiring to build. 

College tennis growth in the U.K. cant hurt and I see there are institutions with lesser academic standards e.g. The University of East London that also take tennis seriously, so there are opportunities to combine building a skillset in something other than academia with tennis.