Does the issue of Oversigning need to be addressed?...look how dirty the SEC is, yet again

[bluemoon22]

Look at the image in the article below. 1/2 of the top 12 teams that oversign come from the SEC, of course. 6 of the 9 teams already oversigned are from the SEC, naturally. The debate over the ethics of the practice of over-signing by universities is starting to pick-up a little bit. The thing that doesn't surprise me is that if there is a gray area that might not violate the current NCAA rules but does have a cloud of suspicion around it, you are guaranteed nearly every SEC team is involved to some degree.

 

College Football Recruiting: Does the issue of Oversigning need to be addressed?

[NUance]

Maybe the ncaa should allow oversigning, but implement some rule that makes it undesirable. Something like this: If a team oversigns, then any kid on the roster can transfer to any other FBS program without penalty (don’t have to sit out a year), and without permission from the school that oversigned. That, and other teams would be allowed to contact their players to see if they wanted to transfer.

 

This would be an incentive not to oversign recruits.

[husker_hurdler]

The problem is that everything comes back to verbal agreements as the recruiting process has evolved. What about the case of Shawn Bodtmann????

[bigg10]

Maybe the ncaa should allow oversigning, but implement some rule that makes it undesirable. Something like this: If a team oversigns, then any kid on the roster can transfer to any other FBS program without penalty (don’t have to sit out a year), and without permission from the school that oversigned. That, and other teams would be allowed to contact their players to see if they wanted to transfer.

 

This would be an incentive not to oversign recruits.

 

That is a good idea. It focuses on the students, because oversigning, leaves many kids thinking they have a "spot" and dont. B10 has it's own set of rules on this, they beleive if you make an offer to a kid, you will stand behind it. Others like sec and B12 always say, we never told the b10 they had to do that so to bad for them.

[husker_hurdler]

Scholarships are for only 1 year at a time. Kids do have the right to go before an appeal board.