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<p>Since your FA is not from the Athletic Department at present, I would check with the FA department to verify if her FA will extend for more than 4 years (this would be a school policy). If the regular FA is indeed better than the athletic money likely to be available, the coach has little if any leverage as to the course load your daughter takes. The only limiting factor would be team activities (which can get in the way of scheduling enough classes). </p>
<p>Most sports do not have enough scholarships available (by NCAA rules) to be generous to its players and there may be rules (by sport) limiting how they can be divided. So if you’ve got good FA without the athletics, many coaches will not even offer athletic money, as it can be used to attract athletes who don’t get other monies. Triage is the name of the game. </p>
<p>Now if your daughter redshirts and run out of regular FA (by school policy), coach may come along and offer you athletic money in the 5th year if coach thinks she is worth the money at that point in time. However, you shouldn’t bet the farm (pun intended) on this and she should take as many units as she feels fits her desired balance of school/athletics/money, ignoring the potential of a 5th year scholarship, as career changing events happen along the way.</p>
<p>Best of luck to her in her decision.</p>