Maybe an attempt to use this recruiting loophole. What Shafer tried to do with the Lax kid from NJ...Giordano.:noidea:
15.5.6.3.4 Nonrecruited Student-Athlete Receiving Institutional Financial Aid. [FBS/FCS]
A student-athlete not recruited (per Bylaw 15.02.8) by the institution who receives institutional financial aid
(based in any degree on athletics ability) after beginning football practice becomes a counter but need not
be counted as an initial counter until the next academic year if the institution has reached its initial limit
for the year in question. However, the student-athlete shall be considered in the total counter limit for the
academic year in which the aid was first received. (Revised: 1/15/11 effective 8/1/11)
15.5.6.3.2 applies to January enrollees who were recruited (kids who graduate HS early, JUCO transfers, grayshirts).