So I learned something new.
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If it didn't, you'd have all kinds of programs using academic/need scholarships as a way around NCAA guidelines on how many scholarships you could give. Just think of how the football programs would abuse this if you let them.
Well football already has overall limits on roster size regardless of scholarship monies so not an issue there.
It's going to change though. The vote will pass.
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Right - 85 scholarships and up to 125 active players. You don't think Bama or Clemson would have 125 scholarship players if they were allowed to?
I don't follow. I mean, sure they would if they could but they aren't allowed to because football scholarships are not allowed to be partial. So it's a completely different animal. Plus there are roster size limits as well so I'm unclear how this pertains to my post about college baseball and presumably softball. My apologies.
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They're allowed to have 40 kids on the active roster who aren't on a football scholarship. My understanding is the NCAA doesn't allow these kids to receive academic/need-based scholarship instead of football scholarships.
Football is 85 scholarships and they're a headcount sport. Cant split
Football, tennis (D1 women only), Gymnastics (D1 women only), volleyball(D1 women only), and basketball (men and women) are headcount. The rest of the sports can split scholarships.
Stacking could get messy
Football, tennis (D1 women only), Gymnastics (D1 women only), volleyball(D1 women only), and basketball (men and women) are headcount. The rest of the sports can split scholarships.
Stacking could get messy
My understanding is that applies only to "recruited" walk-ons.
