DRC: NCAA removes 25-player limit for signing classes for two years

Brett Vito · May 18, 2022

Wag Tag · May 18, 2022

85 limit still in place??

MGNation92 · May 18, 2022

Perfect time for a new coach to come in and shape the roster to be competitive immediately in the AAC.

If I'm Wren I'm hiring a new guy ASAP, unless Littrell wins a conference championship. Littrell won't be proactive enough with this, just like the portal, and just like the NIL.

Get a coach in who will abuse the ever living crap out of the portal/NIL/no signing limit and build the best team possible.

Mean Green 93-98 · May 18, 2022

This is gonna be nuts. The big schools like Bama, Texas, Ohio State, etc., are gonna kick their underperforming scholarship players to the curb, and refill with proven players from G5s and lesser P5s. The portal will be even crazier.

GrandGreen · May 18, 2022

3 minutes ago, MGNation92 said:

Perfect time for a new coach to come in and shape the roster to be competitive immediately in the AAC.

If I'm Wren I'm hiring a new guy ASAP, unless Littrell wins a conference championship. Littrell won't be proactive enough with this, just like the portal, and just like the NIL.

Get a coach in who will abuse the ever living crap out of the portal/NIL/no signing limit and build the best team possible.

You never quit,do you?

How do you know that the players LIttrell have signed out of the portal are not players that will significantly help? I think thus far that Littrell has played the portal very well.

This as usual with the NCAA, will hurt lower tier teams. As the Bigs just grab up more players that would have fallen to G5 level schools.

With the max ships staying at 85, what this will do is cause a lot more turnover. As teams jettison players to make room for potentially better transfers.

Hopefully, it will accomplish it's real mission, which I believe is to provide more high schoolers with scholarships.

El Paso Eagle · May 18, 2022

58 minutes ago, Mean Green 93-98 said:

This is gonna be nuts. The big schools like Bama, Texas, Ohio State, etc., are gonna kick their underperforming scholarship players to the curb, and refill with proven players from G5s and lesser P5s. The portal will be even crazier.

I believe P5 conferences do not allow scholarships to be taken away

https://informedathlete.com/the-facts-about-guaranteed-multi-year-ncaa-di-scholarships/

NT80 · May 19, 2022

"The Football Oversight Committee will monitor transfer trends over the next two seasons, anticipating that coaches will attempt to run off players to replace them under these new rules. That committee will then be able to make a determination on what to do with initial counters after the waiver expires."

https://theathletic.com/news/college-football-25-initial-counter-rules/1Z0lztonTBTr/

Dannymacfan · May 19, 2022

3 hours ago, El Paso Eagle said:

I believe P5 conferences do not allow scholarships to be taken away

https://informedathlete.com/the-facts-about-guaranteed-multi-year-ncaa-di-scholarships/

Yep but they are just one year deals. Believe me plenty of schools tell kids that are busts to pound sand.

MGNation92 · May 19, 2022

4 hours ago, GrandGreen said:

You never quit,do you?

How do you know that the players LIttrell have signed out of the portal are not players that will significantly help? I think thus far that Littrell has played the portal very well.

Compared to his contemporaries? He's a joke, and even complained about it on a podcast recently.

I would love for all the transfers to make immediate impacts here, but with his track record, I'm not optimistic.

GrandGreen · May 19, 2022

3 hours ago, El Paso Eagle said:

I believe P5 conferences do not allow scholarships to be taken away

https://informedathlete.com/the-facts-about-guaranteed-multi-year-ncaa-di-scholarships/

Interesting new rule change, have to see how it works out.

In the olden days, scholarships were for four year; but there was lots of turnover. Players were run off routinely, that might not be so easy now because of the litetous nature of sports that now exists.

Cr1028 · May 19, 2022

Something tells me this is just an opportunity for the power schools to lock up more talent to keep it from playing for the competition. I could see a lot of “NIL boosters, go grab that 30th best player too now so he doesn’t end up facing us in conference next year”.

Edited January 7, 2023 by Cr1028

greenminer · May 19, 2022

I think Greg Sankey and the NCAA Committee is getting NIL money from some P5s.

greenminer · May 19, 2022

58 minutes ago, GrandGreen said:

In the olden days, scholarships were for four year

Are you certain? I'm second guessing this because maybe it was just a different era/culture where people were simply more loyal?

GrandGreen · May 19, 2022

1 minute ago, greenminer said:

Are you certain? I'm second guessing this because maybe it was just a different era/culture where people were simply more loyal?

yes, I am certain.

Graddean · May 19, 2022

If the cap is still set at 85, teams will not be able to scholarship players just to tie them up. They may indeed run players off to allow them to bring in more than 25 in a given year, but that could be dangerous if the waiver does not go past two years.

UNTLifer · May 19, 2022

Barnum And Bailey Circus GIF
And we thought the past year was a circus.

outoftown · May 19, 2022

16 hours ago, Mean Green 93-98 said:

This is gonna be nuts. The big schools like Bama, Texas, Ohio State, etc., are gonna kick their underperforming scholarship players to the curb, and refill with proven players from G5s and lesser P5s. The portal will be even crazier.

Sad to say that this is exactly what will happen.

Somewhere Lane Kiffin and Lincoln Riley are going like this:

episode 7 monty burns GIF

If ever there was a moment for a blueblood to hire Kiffin back to a alpha place, this must be it, he is tailor made for those new rules.

It-ll be initially tough on folks who built on consistency like Dabo Sweeney and to some degree also Nick Saban (but he will adjust), but I doubt Brian Kelley or Jimbo will have any qualms doing exactly that. If they want to improve, then UT cannot change fast enough away from players who are too entitled out of high school to those who learnt how to work somewhere else in order to change culture. Together with the transfer rules there will be very few who will get schollies out of high school at the big schools. They will be wanting them to cut their teeth somewhere else first and take those who persevere and succeed at proving their talent on the college field. By essentially foregoing Freshmen, you are going down from a 4 year cycle to something more of a 2-3 year cycle, which (combined with transfers out and folks leaving for the draft) means they'll need to sign something like 35-40 players a year to get to their 85. Its only a question of time until somebody (and I mean blueblood, below it will happen maybe even quicker) will have a year where they will sign 45 or even 50.

Edited May 19, 2022 by outoftown

DentonStang · May 19, 2022

YES! Even more opportunity for NIL/transfers!

MeanGreenTexan · May 19, 2022

15 hours ago, GrandGreen said:

... I think thus far that Littrell has played the portal very well.

...

You're joking right??

Do we really need to take yet another look at this?

UNTLifer · May 19, 2022

It's an eff'in' free for all and the best part is Saban crying about A$M taking advantage of the situation. Basically, he just indirectly told the Bama boosters to step up.

Then again, he has never mentioned this.

https://totalfratmove.com/tfm/alabama-football-is-the-best-car-dealership-in-the-country/

Wag Tag · May 19, 2022

Players transferring I believe it will create good opportunities for UNT. More important is the 85 limit staying in place.

Wag Tag · May 19, 2022

2 minutes ago, UNTLifer said:

It's an eff'in' free for all and the best part is Saban crying about A$M taking advantage of the situation. Basically, he just indirectly told the Bama boosters to step up.

Then again, he has never mentioned this.

https://totalfratmove.com/tfm/alabama-football-is-the-best-car-dealership-in-the-country/

No one in the SEC will be able to match A$M money. I see USC as being the major competitor for recruits. They can offer the $ and a hell of lot better life style environment. Beaches and babes!