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No more walk-ons and 105 limit roster(105 scholarship players

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Walk-ons will still exist.

The amount of kids leaving schools each year for the portal continues to grow, so i doubt any school is going to be at full capacity to the 105 limit.

What it will do it take away opportunities for kids who lack the talent to really play but want to be part of the team anyway. Those kids will lose their spots to upside recruits, upperclassmen on scholarship who are just riding out their eligibility while they graduate, or preferred walk-on types.
 
DC3 said:
NCAA killed the walk on programs for lots of schools today
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Do you mean that many schools can't afford to provide a full scholarship to another 20 football players? That certainly could be true outside of the P4. But my guess is that most programs are going to convert many of their PWOs to scholarships. How many PWOs do P4 and G5 teams typically have? If it's more than 20, then someone is losing a chair when the music stops. But if it's under that, then this may end up expanding the number of spots and benefit former walkons.
 
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grover said:
Do you mean that many schools can't afford to provide a full scholarship to another 20 football players? That certainly could be true outside of the P4. But my guess is that most programs are going to convert many of their PWOs to scholarships. How many PWOs do P4 and G5 teams typically have? If it's more than 20, then someone is losing a chair when the music stops. But if it's under that, then this may end up expanding the number of spots and benefit former walkons.
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I read that the average roster size for an FBS team was about 130 players so each team's going to end up cutting around 25 players from their program just to get to the limit.

As far as the cost, Its going to be interesting because its not just the 20 schollys for football, but the additional ones that are needed to keep the school title 9 compliant as well.
 
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JayCane20 said:
I thought the SEC just announced like a week or 2 ago they were sticking to 85 for 2025 because the judge in the House didn't sign the settlement and it was going to drag into like April 2025 or something
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You are correct. No one is obligated to go to 105 and if the sec isn’t right away I doubt others will
 
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Again, you got your answer when Sankey announced the SEC is sticking with 85. You think they are letting us go to 105? That is funny.
 
This is probably a necessity. With NIL you could have star players making $$ and being "walk-ons" leaving scholarships to others. Basically allowing creative teams to flaunt the roster cap system. Imagine Cam Ward as a walk on. Not sure he really needs the scholarship at this point.
 
xbobdog said:
This is probably a necessity. With NIL you could have star players making $$ and being "walk-ons" leaving scholarships to others. Basically allowing creative teams to flaunt the roster cap system. Imagine Cam Ward as a walk on. Not sure he really needs the scholarship at this point.
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Except you can't. This is why they made the Miami rule. You need to be on scholarship in order to be part of the active game day roster. Additionally, they made it so you have to be on a football scholarship after Butch loophole'd the system by putting players on track scholarships.
 
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