According to an article on ESPN Philippines (I guess this is a real site?), the 25-player class limit for college football will be getting permanently eliminated. Moving forward, only the total scholarship limit of 85 will be counted. It will be interesting to see how this all plays out for both good and bad.
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I foresee a lot more stress on early signing day from coaching staffs to solidify their classes and give their upperclass players time to portal.
And I think a higher percentage of the Top 100 recruits are going to wait until February to maximize their offers now that they don't have to be concerned about reserving their 1/25 spot in a school's class.
The numbers will continue to work out.
Especially since 7 figures in cash are now associated with said offers.
If true, this could lead to some potentially very ugly scenarios.
I think there are already scenarios where players are being "strongly encouraged" to go into the Transfer Portal.
This just makes that process easier as Teams can "unload" more players without much concern of being unable to replace them.
Then the power Programs don't even have to "slow-play" recruits while they are waiting to see if they land their top targets. Net effect - the Power Programs clearly benefit and only consolidate more talent. Like so many of the recent rule changes, this is another concept that just helps the rich stay richer...how wonderful.
Eliminate HS recruiting rankings and this goes away. But that is big business now, so it will never happen. Coaches need to evaluate who can play football- else you need a system where the kid that can't play a lick but is a 4 star, can be "cut". Without rankings, that's a lot easier.
The Coach Prime Effect Rule
Primary Beneficiaries:
Coach Prime,
Perennial top 10 teams
As usual, everyone else gets the leftovers.
Seems to me this just continues the "already-in-progress "let's pretend to do school while being the NFL minor league"
On the bright side that DT that flipped to anOSU would have never said yes to us. He would have just gone straight there so 1) we know we need a DT sooner, 2) we have less people not following TKP guidelines by not creating new threads when a player decommits because there might be less decommits.
Maybe, maybe not. The scholarship limit still exists. If the team is full of DT's they're still not going to take an extra one, just because they can go over 25 commits.
same rule that's been in place the last couple of years.
one plus is that all of the scholarships can be filled...there were teams that had unfilled openings a couple years ago (in 21?) so some HS kids were getting shorted.
Coach Prime may have also benefitted from the coaching change rule (i.e., kicking players off the team while leaving them on scholarship). I'm thinking Coach Pry may have done some of that as well.
Does this mean Mekhai White is a take now?
*DUCKS*
I would hope so! scholarship limit is still a thing though
With Holloway getting 3 snaps a game at WR, Turner Bradshaw getting 2 and Lofton getting none... I think our WR is set. Don't have room for White.
I didn't comment on it back then, but it was amazing seeing some people justifying him not being a "take" because our WR room is full. Pretty rich for a team that is depleted with talent (still) and with the transfer portal, you have no clue is who is going to be here next year.
Are we asking for a 10-running back group? No. But we are in no shape to say any position group is "full".
He wasn't a take for an off-field reason regarding another recruit according to an insider. I don't know any more than that, and since I don't know any of the details I don't care to speculate further.
This is encouraging a lot more negative outcomes from Coaches/Schools. Big classes coming in and forcing older players into the portal or just telling them we are dropping your scholarship.
Not a fan.
I don't think this is a bad thing. It also helps schools get unfucked from poor roster management quicker. If this rule was in place the last few years, no way Leipold is as successful at Kansas
We'll see if VT benefits this offseason. Prior to this rule taking effect, VT went with a smaller recruiting class for 2024 (which presumabky was to keep wiggle room for transfers). They can now expand the recruiting class and get a slew of transfers, but will require more backend attrition.
Lets make no mistake about it, this was done to give the power back to the schools. The way it is now, with schools only having a certain amount of spots per class, they needed to be picky on who they could bring in, and it meant that the players had all the power to basically hold schools hostage until they moved. Now, well, now the schools can just overload themselves annually, and kick out anyone who doesn't fit the mold, and suddenly everyone other than the elites are completely powerless.
The end game here is that we'll go back to enforcing scholarship contracts, but having them vary in length, with the players deciding which offer best suits them. And if they take a 4 year scholarship somewhere, they cannot transfer and the school cannot cut them.
SEC and B1G schools ignored this anyway.
That would be hard to accomplish, given the 13th amendment. No one can force an individual into labor, even if they'll be compensated. You can have reasonable penalties for breaking a contract though.