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Cutting the roster to 105

LOL, no.

Record attendance
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College football is very much alive. More people are attending, watching, and paying for the product than ever before.

The addition of a playoff format will make this season -by far- the largest and most successful season in college football history.
Sure there's a product that resembles college football with a lot of money involved. It's semi-pro football played on college campuses in the traditional uniforms.
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Cutting the roster to 105

Most of our walkons are going to find homes if they want at FCS or D2 programs. It sucks but if they want to keep playing they can. The kids that are going to lose out are the D2 kids. IF I’m a D2 program I’m not signing many if any high schoolers this winter.
Don't bet on it. I would say that most of our walkons are NOT going to find a home at FCS or D2. First of all, it is debatable that our 4th teamers would be attractive additions to any FCS team under normal circumstances. But this situation is different as many schools are going to be cutting loose guys at the same time. It's going to be much tougher to hook on with a team. Some will try to land at Wayne State or Kearney State. If the coaches already know them from HS, they'll have a shot there. But how many spots do those schools have open?

Cutting the roster to 105

An overly large roster of players doesn't seem to have benefitted us in quite a few years.
Back in the day, we had an oversized roster due to the JV team. Having kids play a JV season as freshmen, redshirt their sophomore year and play on the scout team. That's where the numbers were. The JV team practiced separately. After a year on the scout team, probably half of each class dropped off the roster. As I recall, there really weren't all that many walk-ons who stuck around long. So the only people lost in the shuffle were really only those 2nd year kids who were scout team & redshirting.

The way it works today sounds like a cluster-- far too many kids, too crowded, less productive practices.
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