100 scholarships...

outoftown · August 10, 2014

Absolutely they don't. They want to close the gap within the P5 and make canyons in between the G5 and P5. That way the P5 cellar dwellers would eventually stand a chance and a KU v Iowa St game that in the past would have never made tv, now on tv. I would normally call this a "hidden" agenda, but it's a blatantly obvious agenda. P5 is seeing $ signs and the television market will follow suit.

That may be true and all... but 100 schollies doesn't reduce the Canyon between the top of the P5 and the bottom of the P5, it widens it, as it also means that LSU, Alabama, Texas etc, will take the 15 most promissing recruits from TCU, Iowa State etc. That would make the gap bigger, not smaller.

It's not the number of schollies we need to worry about, but the money low-tier P5 schools will throw at recruits, that we will not be able to throw at them. Right now we win a recruiting battle against a team like KU every once in a blue moon. Not all the time, but it happens. Once all the money gets infused, that will not happen more often than a lunar and a solar eclipse on the same day.

Edited August 10, 2014 by outoftown

Ben Gooding · August 10, 2014

Winning those battles happen more than you think.

IslandEagle · August 10, 2014

Scholarships are still under the NCAA umbrella. I'll worry about that if that happens. 100 scholarships for 65 schools would be the end of G5 as we know it. But again, not worrying about the what if's right now.

Back in the 50's, schools like UT used to sign a bushel of players every year and let them get sorted out during the freshman year (freshmen played on their own teams back then....not with the varsity). This resulted in a lot of players riding the pines and then transferring or quitting football. The big teams just went with numbers and didn't worry so much about how high kids were rated as they figured they could sort them out once they got on campus

Ben Gooding · August 10, 2014

Back in the 50's, schools like UT used to sign a bushel of players every year and let them get sorted out during the freshman year (freshmen played on their own teams back then....not with the varsity). This resulted in a lot of players riding the pines and then transferring or quitting football. The big teams just went with numbers and didn't worry so much about how high kids were rated as they figured they could sort them out once they got on campus

There was little to no money in CFB then. Every single decision made by programs, conferences, NCAA, and now players is and will be motivated by money. There's something wrong with that. The O'Bannon case is just a scratch on the surface that will allow the big wigs to virtually bid for the top recruits. When a cap is eventually released there will be boosters lining up at the door to buy autographs for ungodly amounts of money.

Wouldn't be surprised to see things such as a player on the level of Leonard Fournette singing on Feb 4th with LSU then literally right after signing X posters/footballs for X dollars.

Morals and ethics have kind of been pushed to the side for awhile in CFB. This ruling is going to take it to an entirely different level.