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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 1339079, member: 40"]
I think it's actually pretty simple.  Right now, we can't begin the sanctions based upon the written penalty, because we are already on the hook for more than 10 scholarships next year.  So the penalty defers until the 16-17 season [year after next].  Please note that this has zero to do with TB.
 
So, if the penalty defers until after next season, and we have a departure, then there is an open slot that could be filled by another recruit.  And that slot would go to Thomas Bryant. 
 
The NCAA may have boxed themselves into a corner with how the penalty is written.  The question seems to be: can they somehow swoop in and forbid us to extend a scholarship to TB if somebody exits the program?  Because that would involve a re-interpretation of the penalty, and would require the NCAA to actually impose a "new" penalty that prevents us from making that move.
 
Another question is: if the NCAA tried to swoop in and say that we have to start the scholarship reductions next year due to TB commiting, would they have the jurisdictional authority to force us to not honor three of those scholarships, at least two of which have signed LOIs?
 
Lots unclear.
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