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Everything you need to know about college football's waiver rule
What ordeals will college football teams have to navigate through with players receiving an extra year of eligibility?
www.espn.com
Some may not be able to access it but it breaks down the effects of the 1 year Covid waiver for all student athletes. There are snippets from multiple coaches discussing how it's likely that they are going to only be looking to take 16-17 class of '22 kids instead of the usual 22-23 kids because of scholarship limitations with all of the kids already on the roster potentially having an extra year. They talk about the potential of 500-600 less kids than normal getting a D1 scholarship in this class.
My initial thought would be this bodes well for us in adding higher quality kids than normal. Would imagine that there will be a trickle down effect that helps us and our peers have more access to kids in that 400-600 range. Those are usually our highest rated recruits and in a normal year we are able to secure a couple. Maybe this now allows to get 3-5 instead of 1-3 in that range. Other point of view is that with Covid potentially robbing these high school kids of a year of development and there likely being way less tape on these kids right now that there is going to be way less separation between the 3 star ranked 400th and the one ranked 900th anyway.