macroboy Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 I've seen a few people say that signing players that don't qualify counts towards the scholly limit. How does that work? Do you lose it for a year even though no one is using it? Can you give it to a walk-on for a semester? Why can't you just go get another player that didn't sign on national signing day? I don't get it. 1 Quote Link to comment
Mavric Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 Those are two kind of different things but are closely related. There are rules for how many guys you can sign which basically assumes that you are giving a scholarship to everyone who signs. So how many you can sign is a function of how many guys that are still on the team are on scholarship. You can have up to 85 scholarship players and can over-sign by 3 in February so current scholarship players plus the number you have signed in February is a max of 88. I think you are also only supposed to be able to sign 25 in a given class but that number is flexible because early enrollees can be counted back towards the previous class. The actual scholarship limit of 85 only comes into effect when guys actually make it to campus. That's why you can over-sign by 3 (88) as long as you're back down to 85 by the time most guys show up in June. It gives you a little wiggle room as you usually have a couple guys decide to transfer after spring practice. But if someone you signed doesn't actually make it to campus, that scholarship is available to someone else. It either helps you get down to 85 or can be given to a walk-on or transfer. The only time you actually lose a scholarship is if the player enrolls in classes and then leaves school for some reason. Once they start classes for the semester, their scholarship can't be given to anyone else. This happened a couple years ago (Suttles?) where the guy was here for a week and then left but no one could use that scholarship for that semester. 2 Quote Link to comment
Atbone95 Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 (edited) FWIW, I don't know if this means you can circumnavigate the rules... but technically prospects don't ever have to sign an NLI. I wonder if this rule is moot if we just have kids stop signing. For context: https://sports.vice.com/en_us/article/pgn38z/why-top-ncaa-recruits-shouldnt-sign-national-letters-of-intent I wonder if said rule applies equally to non-NLI but signed financial support documents. Edited January 17, 2018 by Atbone95 1 Quote Link to comment
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