They are one of the few schools that awards 'ship money based on financial need and their boosters want to be more competitive and give out really schollys. In fact they claim to have missed out on Luke Schenscher because of it:
People associated with Lafayette have said among the players the Leopards have lost in recruiting because of the scholarship issue are Georgia Tech center Luke Schencher and Holy Cross point guard Torey Thomas.
Guess Luke had a bigger posse than we thought.