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I love to see kids succeed. I don't care if they are from my own children's most bitter high school rival. I want for them to live successfully. The whole point of going to college is not to play football, it's to get the degree to get the good job. The football should just be the fun part about it and a kid with football skills should use those skills and talent to get into the good school. Might be a school that without the football skills they would have had less of chance to get into to. I wish the boy the best. Now he has a look, he has to do the work to get the scores to get into the school. If that happens, then the reality of the fact that there is not many free rides will set in. DIII schools don't give athletic scholarships, but, these private schools can come up with some mighty fine academic scholarships that might pay the lion's share of the cost. It depends on need and parental income. If parental income is less than $65,000 annually(two parents), a lot of the schools along the line of Ivy League schools, Washington University in St. Louis and perhaps even Rhodes will reduce tuition costs to near nil. A family that has an income of around $85,000 may have to pay about $10,000 annually. I don't know what UK or UL costs annually, but, it will probably put the elite schools on par with going to the large public schools. The reputation of the elite schools will often propel the kid to the top of the hiring pool when being considered for employment versus the public school...so.....
Like I said before, it is now up to the boy to hold up his end by continuing the good grades/achieving the scores and then the parents to figure out how to pay for it.
He can do it and so can the parents if they set their minds to it.
Applications for these top schools are currently going on for these kids. To increase his odds of getting in, some schools have Early decision/Early choice and the applications come due near the end of October/mid November. You need to check on this. It increases the chances of getting into the better colleges by nearly doubling them. But, a kid will be legally bound to attend that college if accepted in some cases, so do your homework.
Good luck and I'm glad he has the opportunity!

P.S. Remember, even if the kid gets a scholarship to a public university, there are certain GPA limitations they are allowed to keep the scholarship. I think that UK has a 3.7 or 3.75 GPA limitation. If a kid EVER gets below that GPA in one semester, the entire scholarship is GONE forever. They don't get them back even if they bring it back above that mark. Private schools like Rhodes and Wash. U. do NOT have those bottom limits set in stone. It's a big deal and a relieves a lot of pressure from a kid.