105 scholarships for every team, starting in 2025/26.

[fordman84]

You read that right. As part of the NCAA settlement football rosters will be capped at 105 and full scholarships are available to the full roster.

Max scholly/rosters per sport when this kicks in next year:
FB = 105
Men/Women Basketball = 15
baseball = 34
softball = 25
volleyball = 18

 

[fordman84]

 

[RubinRock]

Maybe I’m wrong, but feel like this will only increase more transferring in football. A lot of teams are going to stockpile even more kids who have no shot at getting regular playing time, and even more will want to transfer.

Happy about baseball tho. 11.7 was beyond dumb and too few.

 

[fordman84]

Maybe I’m wrong, but feel like this will only increase more transferring in football. A lot of teams are going to stockpile even more kids who have no shot at getting regular playing time, and even more will want to transfer.

Happy about baseball tho. 11.7 was beyond dumb and too few.

I agree, this will cause more kids to get scholarships at a school then get tired of riding the bench. The reduction in roster spots in baseball is going to benefit DII and below, and it's going to make it even more difficult for HS kids to get a D1 roster spot. Baseball transfer portal is going to be out of control!

 

[Goldbug]

None of these athletes are learning the power of a commitment to a team, a job, a school or anything. They think they are learning that life is full of endless mulligans. And then when they go into marriages and make other critical decisions what is their life experience? I'm all for one transfer unless your head coach leaves. After that, fuck ya. Live with your decision and make the best of it.

 

[fordman84]

None of these athletes are learning the power of a commitment to a team, a job, a school or anything. They think they are learning that life is full of endless mulligans. And then when they go into marriages and make other critical decisions what is their life experience? I'm all for one transfer unless your head coach leaves. After that, fuck ya. Live with your decision and make the best of it.

It's how non-athletes treat their jobs, too. Loyalty is freaking dead in the workplace, you go where they will pay you the most or have the best path upwards. Long gone are the years of pensions and everyone sticks around for 20+ years.

And I'm ok with all of it. Coaches are free to move or bench a player, so the player should have the freedom to move around. Just a few years ago kids had zero power other than quit if a coach ended up being an asshole.

 

[Goldbug]

It's how non-athletes treat their jobs, too. Loyalty is freaking dead in the workplace, you go where they will pay you the most or have the best path upwards. Long gone are the years of pensions and everyone sticks around for 20+ years.

And I'm ok with all of it. Coaches are free to move or bench a player, so the player should have the freedom to move around. Just a few years ago kids had zero power other than quit if a coach ended up being an asshole.

I would not hire someone who had played for more than two schools unless their coach had quit on them because I know what he/she is made of. One transfer. Stick with it. How many people in all walks of life have to stick with a job, a military commitment, etc. because it's forced on them by circumstances or contract? To hell with this all this transfer nonsense where U-Haul is on the kid's speed dial.

 

[fordman84]

I would not hire someone who had played for more than two schools unless their coach had quit on them because I know what he/she is made of. One transfer. Stick with it. How many people in all walks of life have to stick with a job, a military commitment, etc. because it's forced on them by circumstances or contract? To hell with this all this transfer nonsense where U-Haul is on the kid's speed dial.

Not if you want the best players. It’s just free agency.

 

[Thiefery]

I agree, this will cause more kids to get scholarships at a school then get tired of riding the bench. The reduction in roster spots in baseball is going to benefit DII and below, and it's going to make it even more difficult for HS kids to get a D1 roster spot. Baseball transfer portal is going to be out of control!

it's going to make the minor league teams in baseball much stronger now too

 

[RubinRock]

I agree, this will cause more kids to get scholarships at a school then get tired of riding the bench. The reduction in roster spots in baseball is going to benefit DII and below, and it's going to make it even more difficult for HS kids to get a D1 roster spot. Baseball transfer portal is going to be out of control!

I'm curious if it will actually lesson the baseball transfer portal. The portal is already crazy in baseball . There are some teams that nearly lose their entire roster, and its not uncommon to see 30-50% of the roster in the portal.

I'm curious if we'll see less transfers because there will be more starters and pitchers on full scholarships now. I guess we'll see the impacts in the years to come.

 

[fordman84]

it's going to make the minor league teams in baseball much stronger now too

True, but there are fewer of them after the last contract. So we already saw a lot of kids staying in college with fewer MiLB roster spots plus NIL. This will cascade and make better programs at all levels.

 

[fordman84]

I'm curious if it will actually lesson the baseball transfer portal. The portal is already crazy in baseball . There are some teams that nearly lose their entire roster, and its not uncommon to see 30-50% of the roster in the portal.

I'm curious if we'll see less transfers because there will be more starters and pitchers on full scholarships now. I guess we'll see the impacts in the years to come.

True, the scholarship may limit who will want to transfer. I think you will just see the D1 schools not really picking up HS players except the very best HS'ers who maybe didn't get drafted. D1 will just use DII, NAIA, and JuCo as their feeder programs.

I wonder if this would be able to drive more transfer limits within conferences.

 

[RubinRock]

True, the scholarship may limit who will want to transfer. I think you will just see the D1 schools not really picking up HS players except the very best HS'ers who maybe didn't get drafted. D1 will just use DII, NAIA, and JuCo as their feeder programs.

I wonder if this would be able to drive more transfer limits within conferences.

It will depend on whether or not how D1 schools go after HS players, but I actually could see DII, NAIA, and JuCo being less of feeder programs now because more of the top talent will just head to D1. I think D1 schools are still going to go after HS players heavily because (more so than football) a lot of them can come in right a way and help out. So they'll still want to get them right out of HS and develop them, with the thought that they'll hold on to these players since they have more scholarships available. As a result, less high school talent will go to those lower divisions.

With that said, who the hell knows. There's so many variables involved that it could all be a wash, and no real differences will occur. Except more players are on scholarship. Which is a good thing.

 

[fordman84]

It will depend on whether or not how D1 schools go after HS players, but I actually could see DII, NAIA, and JuCo being less of feeder programs now because more of the top talent will just head to D1. I think D1 schools are still going to go after HS players heavily because (more so than football) a lot of them can come in right a way and help out. So they'll still want to get them right out of HS and develop them, with the thought that they'll hold on to these players since they have more scholarships available. As a result, less high school talent will go to those lower divisions.

With that said, who the hell knows. There's so many variables involved that it could all be a wash, and no real differences will occur. Except more players are on scholarship. Which is a good thing.

Oh I see your point. I was looking at it from the reduction in roster spots, you are looking at it from the increase in full scholarships. That's a good call out, more top players who wanted a full ride were picking smaller schools and now as many won't have to. It's always been a battle, and Augie used to famously say he reserved his limited scholarships for pitching and just the rare occasional position player. Now the left fielder can have a full ride at one of the top D1 schools and might do that instead.

 

[occupant]

Kids mantra today is GET THAT BAG.

This is a power grab of sorts to slow down the parity a bit.

Good luck.

 

[CoalTrain]

Haven’t dug very deep into this, in fact just paid any attention to it this morning but, could this be a preemptive move by leadership (stretch I know) in expectation of lower level football programs going away due to lack of revenue in this new era to give more potential players a landing spot?

 

[CoalTrain]

It will depend on whether or not how D1 schools go after HS players, but I actually could see DII, NAIA, and JuCo being less of feeder programs now because more of the top talent will just head to D1. I think D1 schools are still going to go after HS players heavily because (more so than football) a lot of them can come in right a way and help out. So they'll still want to get them right out of HS and develop them, with the thought that they'll hold on to these players since they have more scholarships available. As a result, less high school talent will go to those lower divisions.

With that said, who the hell knows. There's so many variables involved that it could all be a wash, and no real differences will occur. Except more players are on scholarship. Which is a good thing.

Unproven HS players (football) will likely be cheaper overall compared to proven college level players so.. makes a lot of sense.

 

[Wild Turkey]

Basically this is eliminating Walk Ons as everyone will be on scholarship now and the truth was big programs were giving walk ons NIL deals to compensate them anyway.

The big changes in football will most likely be the following:
- Easier for programs like Georgia and Alabama to stockpile players initially so you won't see teams making decisions on do I take this inbacker or that one.
- Walk on spots for ex-player kids, boosters and just good kids will more than likely just go away and in most cases not a huge deal.

 

[Thiefery]

don't think they are actually going to keep 105 scholarship players.. Bigger schools probably will gurantee something for the top 60 players.. something smaller for the rest unless they move into that top 60.. otherwise..Portal will be full every time it opens

DT/OL recruiting is going to be fun.. staffs will take more shots on developmental players

 

[huskers1217]

. Loyalty is freaking dead in the workplace, you go where they will pay you the most or have the best path upwards. Long gone are the years of pensions and everyone sticks around for 20+ years.

to be fair.. workers always need to be on the move or they risk getting laid off.

companies want hot young talent that they can pay nothing too

fuck companies.......