FWIW - NCAA Getting Ready to EXPAND Scholarship Limits

[RedCap]

As described in the article link, looks like the NCAA is getting ready to allow a super large class of scholarships for this year. Frost and staff better get to work!

Excerpt: "Under the new waiver, teams will be able to replace up to seven players who leave via the portal, raising the max signing number from 25 to 32 players. A school that loses fewer than seven players will only be allowed to replace up to the number which transferred—so a team that loses five players can sign only 30 players, not 32."

Obviously the new proposal is intended to address the situation where such a growing number of transfer portal players can leave the scholarship roster decimated.

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[John_J_Rambo]

I wondered what they'd do to counter their own stupidity in allowing everyone a free year last year

this is right in line with the ncaa's motto: fight stupid with stupid & never think ahead more than 10 seconds

 

[RedCap]

As described in the article link, looks like the NCAA is getting ready to allow a super large class of scholarships for this year. Frost and staff better get to work!

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Of course in practical terms there really are "no scholarship limits" any more with NIL. You just have to be clever enough and bold enough to fully exploit that situation.

 

[YellowLabHusker]

So if there are two players that transfer after this season, you could only sign two extra high school seniors? It seems unlikely that any good players will be available that late. Is there something i am missing?

 

[dinglefritz]

As described in the article link, looks like the NCAA is getting ready to allow a super large class of scholarships for this year. Frost and staff better get to work!

Excerpt: "Under the new waiver, teams will be able to replace up to seven players who leave via the portal, raising the max signing number from 25 to 32 players. A school that loses fewer than seven players will only be allowed to replace up to the number which transferred—so a team that loses five players can sign only 30 players, not 32."

Obviously the new proposal is intended to address the situation where such a growing number of transfer portal players can leave the scholarship roster decimated.

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Proposal but not passed. I'm not sure the majority of schools are going to go for that with the budget issues many of them have.

 

[RedCap]

Proposal but not passed. I'm not sure the majority of schools are going to go for that with the budget issues many of them have.

Shouldn't really be much of a budget issue because it just allows a school to expand the scholarship limit for the current year to replenish transfer portal losses but not beyond the maximum 85 limit for a full roster which stays the same.

That of course is the "technical" limit on official athletic scholarships but NIL now provides a way to fund more players with "non-scholarship" funding. Since a dollar is a dollar a kid now can pay for his own tuition and expenses with NIL funds provided by businesses.

 

[JaySker402]

This sounds like more a counter to the rule where transfers dont have to sit a year. Late transfers hurt recruiting because you think you have a position filled then a kid leaves to go play somewhere else.

 

[headcard]

This will really motive schools to push out non-contributors.

 

[nwualum]

Does this really just hurt smaller schools and conferences? In other words, the top 20 just took on another 140 kids that would have gone to smaller schools. In this case, the rich get richer (again). Alabama may not even have to put 5-10 kids on "medical" scholarship anymore.

 

[HuskerOH]

The portal has opened Pandora's Box. Nothing good will result from this. Might as well go back to the unlimited scholly's... The $EC is only going to get richer and the mid majors will slide back to non existent.

I see no good or anything of value in this.

 

[JaySker402]

Shouldn't really be much of a budget issue because it just allows a school to expand the scholarship limit for the current year to replenish transfer portal losses but not beyond the maximum 85 limit for a full roster which stays the same.

That of course is the "technical" limit on official athletic scholarships but NIL now provides a way to fund more players with "non-scholarship" funding. Since a dollar is a dollar a kid now can pay for his own tuition and expenses with NIL funds provided by businesses.

yeah, they arent increasing the 85, just allowing for schools that lost kids to the portal to sign more

 

[cidsports]

The portal has opened Pandora's Box. Nothing good will result from this. Might as well go back to the unlimited scholly's... The $EC is only going to get richer and the mid majors will slide back to non existent.

I see no good or anything of value in this.

It works both ways. Players can move up or down. Not sure it changes mid majors.

Over last 7 years, Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State and LSU have won. Oregon and Georgia played for a title and lost.

Right now, Iowa is the outlier in Top 10 basically. Cincinnati is top mid-major program.

Did anyone get missed. Oh, Oklahoma has never won a CFP game though popular partipant and near miss was with Georgia.

Notre Dame will break a trend, if they land in Top 10 at year's end.

 

[salsa red]

I wonder if the big 10 will find a way to limit this.

 

[cidsports]

I wonder if the big 10 will find a way to limit this.

Why?

The portal and the covid-19 hangover of super seniors have cause this stop gap proposal.

 

[HuskerOH]

It works both ways. Players can move up or down. Not sure it changes mid majors.

Over last 7 years, Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State and LSU have won. Oregon and Georgia played for a title and lost.

Right now, Iowa is the outlier in Top 10 basically. Cincinnati is top mid-major program.

Did anyone get missed. Oh, Oklahoma has never won a CFP game though popular partipant and near miss was with Georgia.

Notre Dame will break a trend, if they land in Top 10 at year's end.

The newest change is not good for the players. The schools now can cut the players and get a scholly back kind of "free of charge". The portal is not friendly to a lot of those entering it. Coaches like Saban will be cutting players loose after their Soph. yr if they are not to his liking. Too many ways the schools can abuse this new rule. With 7 new schollys, this will be abused. The Power 5 schools (and all FBS schools) now have 7 extra slots (essentially having 32 slots every year) they can fill every year leaving less players for the Mid Majors to have. Not every player in the portal will have a team to fall to. THIS WILL BE ABUSED, guaranteed.

 

[Baxter48]

Alabama doesn’t go by the 25 scholarship limits nobody seems to care about them

 

[SkerInCo]

WE'RE BACK BABY!

 

[RedCap]

Alabama doesn’t go by the 25 scholarship limits nobody seems to care about them

Well in the past Alabama recruited with illegal cash payments. What's been made different by NIL is that now Alabama can recruit legally with cash payments. There are multiple rich Alabama boosters out there with checkbooks in hand to pay players whatever it takes. If money is any recruit's determining factor in choosing a school, no one in college football can stand up to Alabama if they really want that player.

The only thing that is ever going to stop Alabama now is when Saban finally decides to hang it up.