Trial Ballon on how to make up for teams hit hard by the transfer portal. The NCAA Division I Council announced on Wednesday that it is waiving the initial counter scholarship limits for two years within Division I football. Previously, teams had been limited to 25 initial counters, or scholarship spots, per year from high school prospects and transfers. Even if programs were under the 85 total scholarship limit, if they had reached the annual 25 limit, they could not sign any more scholarship players.
Nice raise /extension for Ohio States Ryan Day. He's going to be making 9.5 million now. Pac12 scraps divisions and the 2 team's in the Championship game will be the 2 teams with the best record. I expect the ACC to follow suit. Doubtful that the B1G or the SEC will follow right now.
Allow me to light the fuse Nick Saban: Texas A&M ‘bought every player’ in No. 1 recruiting class, Alabama ‘didn’t buy one’ - al.com
Yep, those statements were unequivocal. Saban will either have to put up or shut up now. Deion Sanders has already said he will respond today. Jimbo will respond too I'm sure. He hit Miami as well.
For the next two years, the ridiculous ultimate (improbable but technically possible) limit is that, every year, XYZ University can recruit 85 Senior transfers. Not advisable. However, fewer than 85 transfers is also now possible.
The wife and I have been fighting COVID the last week or so which is depressing enough. All this NIH just kind of makes it worse. Like a lot of you I am afraid it takes a lot of the fun out of college football. While I think some adjustments are long overdue this isn't making a lot of sense to me.
Lifting the limit on the number of scholarships that can be given doesn't change the 85 limit on players though.
Didn't Saban himself says about a year ago that his freshman QB had already earned $1 million and hadn't thrown a pass yet?
Unfortunately for college football, all of the things that Saban said that those schools did...is apparently legal.
Over the years I have to say that I haven't been a big fan of Saban. But I have come to admire what he has accomplished, has he been a Saint, probably not but if he has skirted the rules he's been smart enough to cover it up. Certainly though on his run at Alabama he's accomplished so much and proven that he is one of the best if not the best coach of the modern Era. Players have plenty of reasons to come to Alabama and play for him, the winning, the # of NFL draft picks, the # of players on NFL rosters. NIL opportunities are just the cherry on top. Those reasons don't exist to the same level at A&M, so NIL opportunities have to be a factor. You have to believe that players and their parents are asking what NIL they can expect, they are factoring in that to their decision. Is it the sole factor, unlikely. They still want to know how soon junior will get on the field, who is his position coach, how does he fit into the offensive / defensive scheme. I said before I thought it wasn't productive to call out A&M specifically and using the term 'bought' was inflamitory. Truthfully I don't know what can be done, every state has its own rules and now California has a plan to force schools to cut the Players in on the revenue from football. More chaos. The winners are the top players who are making a ton of money right now many of which are totally unproven. The losers I believe are going to be the kids in non - revenue sports who had been supported by the money from football.
I think the reality is that Alabama does not have the resources to fund collectives to the extent that A&M, or Texas or USC have. The University makes a lot of money but we don't have the numbers of deep pocketed boosters that some of these others have. I would think that UGA and Clemson would be in the same boat. That may be one of Saban's motivations. He won't be able to compete in a bidding war.