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Gilbert is a 2 way player in high school. He isn't going to see the field as a WR either, so yes it is the same.
@SoFL_Dawg
So won’t the increase in the max class bc of transfer portal allow us to sign more than 25? This would allow for
1 QB
2 RB
4 WR
2 TE
5 OL
5 DL
3 LB
4 DB
1 K
@SoFL_Dawg Do you have any insight into 5 DT QB Caleb Williams committment date? Has it been announced yet or nothing imminent? thanks!
He posted something about August 30th yesterday. Also, not that it really matters, but this is the ‘20 thread
I have heard that there is chatter schools have been communicated with and believe the 25 limit will be lifted and retroactively back counted. I don’t have any additional info on that. All I can definitively say is we take 23 minimum. My gut says it’ll be 25 with 27 total (blue shirt Zirkel and Joseph who isn’t initial counter with the class). I’ve mocked 24, to be safe, with a blue shirt and Joseph.
I try not to talk about future classes during current cycle. Just a personal preference. ask this in the 21 thread going forward to try to keep this one exclusively for the priority 20 targets. I’ll answer your question there.
Where have you seen that initial signing limit is changing. I can't find it anywhere on the internet?
The change would make sense.
The 85 is a NCAA rule.
The 25 is a SEC rule. And the SEC will CYA.
Are you sure it didn't go NCAA wide? I remember an article about Les Miles at Kansas... I just found this one on SI that's different, but seems to indicate the same:
"This is why the SEC changed its rules a decade ago and the NCAA adopted those changes nationwide."
Leaving that because I don't feel like starting the post over, but here we go:
"Football Bowl Subdivision schools are limited to signing 25 prospective and current student-athletes to a first-time financial aid agreement or a National Letter of Intent. Exceptions exclude current student-athletes who have been enrolled full-time at the school for at least two years and prospective or current student-athletes who suffer an incapacitating injury (effective for recruits who sign after Aug. 1, 2017)."
There you go. I stand corrected.
Either way, I don't think it will matter whose rule it is... There is a very real danger of teams being incapable of fielding a roster of 85 scholarship athletes with the existence of the transfer portal. Especially when you factor in teams like Miss St, Kansas, and others that rely heavily on JuCo prospects. If you're not careful, you end up where Kansas is right now and it will take you 2-3 cycles just to get back to a healthy number of athletes. That's a problem if the rule is supposedly in place to help create a sense of parity and level ground and prevent a handful of teams from hoarding all the elite talent. And it's not working anyways... The same handful of schools are still at the top of the recruiting rankings year in/year out more or less.
Glad to hear they're at least considering doing something about it.
Good points.
Playing devil's advocate, how do you protect parity (I know it's not there, but pretend) if we allow an increase in initial counters for transfer portal losses? Imagine a team pulling in the best players, spending a year or so deciding on the ones they like, and sending the rest to the TP to gain more initial counters for that year. The talent pool shrinks for teams outside the top 10 or so.
We're in a great position at the moment and, despite college football being cyclical, I never see UGA being on the loser side of this. But I am curious what limitations you set in place to at least pretend you're aiming for fairness across the board.
Who's next?
It’s been said repeatedly SVP before season.