Ugh - the term "full ride" was meant to indicate a full athletic scholarship - whether it's football and basketball where it's 'soup to nuts' or lax and other non-revenue sports where it's tuition only, either way it was meant to be indicative of the level of athletic scholarship offered. If you start to conflate academic and other funds offered, you have watered down the term and disparaged every SA that actually got a "full ride", as you've now cheapened them. Words and phrases have meanings - stop changing those to suit your desired viewpoints!