I’m dying laughing at this thread. Not sure a single person in this thread has an understanding of the NCAA rules around scholarship numbers.
We have 73 players on scholarship if you remove the 2 walkons that were awarded scholarships. What’s important about the walkons is that they both have been on campus for at least 2 academic years, so their scholarships don’t count as initial counters.
The maximum number we can sign this year is 28. 25 that count toward the 2018 class and 3 that count back toward the 2017 class. We will need some attrition to hit that number. Our limit this year is being dictated by the initial counter rules moreso than the 85 scholarship limit.
We get it, but don't laugh at us. We WANT to understand, but the rules are convoluted and even the board "experts" on this stuff can't seem to agree/give us definitive explanations on what the rules are and where we stand. Perhaps we need someone like you to put together a sticky thread with a simple flow chart or bullet point explanation for how to calculate the availability of scholarships for each recruiting class to refer back to each year. At least until they change the rules again...
Help us understand.
TIA
Don't worry about it, and the newfound snobbery of Canes 1968, a few months ago he had never heard of the IC rules and I had to teach him everything he now knows.
Here's the thing. The rules are not the real issue, there are some basic rules and a few exceptions (mid-year graduate "replacement" rule, for example). The ONE THING that we really don't know for certain, because we do not have the actual NCAA certification documents in front of us, is how many guys in the prior class were actually "counted forward". Until we can establish that, with certainty, we don't know exactly how many in this year's class can "count forward".
The real joke, in all of this, involves the idiot posters who want to point to this school or that school (from years ago) who signed more than 25 guys. These are the guys who have NO IDEA what they are talking about, all they do is go to the Rivals signing list and assume that every name on the list was enrolled the very next semester. Which...the reasonable people know is simply not true.
Richt could sign 100 guys. The key is how many actually ENROLL.
Even the "expert" Canes 1968, when he stops looking down his nose at everyone, has no idea how many guys from the prior class were able to be counted in the prior class. He will TRY to dazzle you by going back 5 years, in a desperate attempt to dazzle you with his fraudulent knowledge, but as I have pointed out before, when Miami self-imposed scholarship reductions, we also reduced our IC numbers. So even the people who like to point out that the final NCAA sanctions did not include IC reductions, that doesn't mean we didn't take IC reductions in prior years. We did.
We can take 25, and maybe a couple more due to early enrollees (yes, there is a max cap of 5, no matter what other circumstances apply) and/or the mid-year graduate replacement exception.
If you want to know how close we will be, due to the IC rules, take note of how many guys we have PUBLICLY offered preferred walk-on roles. It's one thing to do this in May, it's quite another to do it in December. If any of them pan out, we can give them scholarships in a couple of years.
25-27. If I was a betting fiend, I'd put money on it.