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Message: [QUOTE="retro44, post: 2064763, member: 587"] Wow...guess that is true. IMG of Florida had 20 of it's 21 players enroll early. Mich. had 11,Va Teck 9,OSU has 9 and so on for the big boys. Articles galore are calling this a back door early signing strategy for the big boys of college ball as the schools are not listing them as early guys until they sign. Saban is using players on a new term to me of "Blue Shirting" which means if Saban doesn't go to the kids actual home for a visit and the kid never takes an official he can walk on and take a scholarship when one opens up for his class. But Saban has to have a player lose a scholarship from that class if they were at the limit for that year.These players attended multiple years at Alabama camps,so Saban was very aware of the kids on a personal level. This maybe the reason why the NCAA might allow early signing period to balance things out. All of sudden top high school players are becoming Academic Scholars in a huge uptake this year. Even Oklahoma players have been declaring Personal Health and African-American studies as their majors. Something tells me the NCAA might start going over these kids high school transcripts very hard like they did with the online courses the SEC schools used very frequently a few years back.Guess what conference got the most players from IMG? IMG also claims that the players high school transcripts determines if they get to play for them,not their football skills...LOL. It costs players $ 70,800 a year to attend the for-profit school which also receives $7 million in state funds. They started playing football in 2013 after spending, if you can believe this, $197 million on a stadium and facilities. [URL]https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/19/sports/football/high-school-football-inc.html?_r=0[/URL] This has really opened my eyes on how high school sports is now becoming a big business too. Interesting list of sponsors ...[URL='https://www.imgacademy.com/sponsors']Sponsors[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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