Say good bye to annual 25 scholarship limit

[Moontan]

If all 85 scholarship athletes were to leave in 1 year then you can bring in 85 new scholarship athletes - HS & transfers.

NCAA drops football limit on bringing in players

Amid the ongoing frequency of transfers around college football, the NCAA Division I Council has approved a rule change eliminating limits on the number of players a program can bring in.

www.espn.com

 

[GoSU96]

If all 85 scholarship athletes were to leave in 1 year then you can bring in 85 new scholarship athletes - HS & transfers.

NCAA drops football limit on bringing in players

Amid the ongoing frequency of transfers around college football, the NCAA Division I Council has approved a rule change eliminating limits on the number of players a program can bring in.

www.espn.com

That makes sense in the context of having excess departures within an 85 player roster limit.

A lot of kids are at greater risk to have the talk.

 

[SUDadx2]

It's gonna get wild. I would expect more schools to "push" under-performing players out of their programs and try to replicate the Colorado model.

 

[RF2044]

That makes sense in the context of having excess departures within an 85 player roster limit.

A lot of kids are at greater risk to have the talk.

What a feeding frenzy this will turn the transfer portal into [as if it weren't already]...

 

[Entropic]

What could go wrong?

 

[sutomcat]

If all 85 scholarship athletes were to leave in 1 year then you can bring in 85 new scholarship athletes - HS & transfers.

NCAA drops football limit on bringing in players

Amid the ongoing frequency of transfers around college football, the NCAA Division I Council has approved a rule change eliminating limits on the number of players a program can bring in.

www.espn.com

This was inevitable given the new rules.

It gives coaches a hell of a lot more leeway towards building a program quickly.

I hope in conjunction with this, the NCAA enforces the requirement schools have to honor scholarships for at least 4 years.

 

[All4SU]

This is dumb. It’s like throwing gas on a dumpster fire.

 

[Entropic]

This is dumb. It’s like throwing gas on a dumpster fire.

 

[Millhouse]

I wonder if schools/coaches will go against the grain and avoid the portal to be able to credibly day to recruits, you commit to us, we commit to you

This is all gross. All these delusional kids getting their heads bashed in during practice, not playing, then getting recruited over. Almost everyone is better off playing down

 

[OrangeXtreme]

Marrone says it's about a decade too late.

 

[texascpa]

On the positive side, this is good for teams that lose a lot to the transfer portal. But, let's be honest here, players have been pushing for more autonomy and freedom, as well as to be treated like employees. If this is what one side wants, why would it surprise anyone that the other side is going to do something to balance things out.

 

[sufandu]

This was inevitable given the new rules.

It gives coaches a hell of a lot more leeway towards building a program quickly.

I hope in conjunction with this, the NCAA enforces the requirement schools have to honor scholarships for at least 4 years.

That may be hard to enforce unless someone decides to be a whistleblower. Coaches will just claim they didn't cut anyone, they transferred voluntarily.

 

[SuFTW]

That may be hard to enforce unless someone decides to be a whistleblower. Coaches will just claim they didn't cut anyone, they transferred voluntarily.

It shouldn’t be hard, but by its nature someone would have to report it. I don’t think the coach would care if they stay at the school if they don’t count towards the limit.

 

[Orijinal]

So 85 player cap is still in place. This seems reasonable

 

[CbusCuse]

So 85 player cap is still in place. This seems reasonable

Well unless their walk-ons getting NIL instead.

 

[Chip]

Annual scholarship limit doesn't make much sense in the new world.

Hope the total stays at 85 though.

 

[anomander]

This was inevitable given the new rules.

It gives coaches a hell of a lot more leeway towards building a program quickly.

I hope in conjunction with this, the NCAA enforces the requirement schools have to honor scholarships for at least 4 years.

to be fair we have been pushing kids out for years. I think it's just going to get kicked up a notch.

 

[sufandu]

It shouldn’t be hard, but by its nature someone would have to report it. I don’t think the coach would care if they stay at the school if they don’t count towards the limit.

Why would they not count toward the limit? It's the 25 per year that's changing, not the 85 total.

 

[shu 49]

I just hate for the kids who are mid 3 star guys who don’t make the money cause they kept transferring. It s tough for me. I want them to make money but this isn’t working

 

[Moontan]

I just hate for the kids who are mid 3 star guys who don’t make the money cause they kept transferring. It s tough for me. I want them to make money but this isn’t working

Why keep transferring?

Give it a shot to make it to the pros, while you obtain an education and are prepared to join the mainstream in case the football dreams don't play out.

 

[SuFTW]

Why would they not count toward the limit? It's the 25 per year that's changing, not the 85 total.

They are no longer in the program. Guaranteed scholarship not roster spot.

 

[Moontan]

They are no longer in the program. Guaranteed scholarship not roster spot.

In theory, NIL money can be used to provide "scholarships" for those who may be asked to step aside.

 

[sufandu]

They are no longer in the program. Guaranteed scholarship not roster spot.

I don't think the NCAA allows that outside of injury, do they?

 

[SuFTW]

I don't think the NCAA allows that outside of injury, do they?

Now I am not sure. I was thinking of what happened at Colorado, but that situation has its own rule.

Maybe teams just declare injuries like Alabama did with Ingraham before he came to SU.

First-year head coaches, like Sanders, have access to the NCAA's "Aid After Departure of Head Coach" rule, which allows them to cut scholarship players and not have them count against the 85-scholarship limit, as long as those players remain on scholarship through the university.

Deion Sanders' roster remake at Colorado like nothing college football has ever seen

A look at how Sanders executed exit interviews after the spring like an NFL cutdown day. Saturday we get to start seeing if his plan worked.

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[Capt. Tuttle]

What could go wrong?

Labor market is always tougher for the employer when the workers have freedom of movement and freedom of contract.