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per Greder:
With less than two weeks left until the early signing period opens, the Gophers football program has just two vacancies in its 2018 recruiting class.
Revised NCAA rules passed in April have further capped the number of recruits Football Bowl Subdivision schools can sign each year to 25, meaning Minnesota’s 23 current pledges are bumping up against the cap.
During this recruiting cycle, the Gophers have been a national pacesetter in the amount of oral commitments received since they started rolling in last spring for first-year coach P.J. Fleck. Minnesota’s total is currently tied for third-most in the country, behind Mississippi State’s 25 and Virginia Tech’s 24.
While the NCAA has had some form of a 25-recruit cap since at least 2010, the intent of the new limit is to control programs from “over-signing” above the 85 total scholarships allotted and then “gray-shirting,” or having the incoming players wait to enroll in school and not join the team until the following spring to count toward the following year’s total. Over-signing also adds a buffer if other players can’t meet academic standards, are injured and retire or if it’s determined they won’t play in the future and leave the program.
http://www.twincities.com/2017/12/0...ting-class-nears-cap-on-number-they-can-sign/
Go Gophers!!
With less than two weeks left until the early signing period opens, the Gophers football program has just two vacancies in its 2018 recruiting class.
Revised NCAA rules passed in April have further capped the number of recruits Football Bowl Subdivision schools can sign each year to 25, meaning Minnesota’s 23 current pledges are bumping up against the cap.
During this recruiting cycle, the Gophers have been a national pacesetter in the amount of oral commitments received since they started rolling in last spring for first-year coach P.J. Fleck. Minnesota’s total is currently tied for third-most in the country, behind Mississippi State’s 25 and Virginia Tech’s 24.
While the NCAA has had some form of a 25-recruit cap since at least 2010, the intent of the new limit is to control programs from “over-signing” above the 85 total scholarships allotted and then “gray-shirting,” or having the incoming players wait to enroll in school and not join the team until the following spring to count toward the following year’s total. Over-signing also adds a buffer if other players can’t meet academic standards, are injured and retire or if it’s determined they won’t play in the future and leave the program.
http://www.twincities.com/2017/12/0...ting-class-nears-cap-on-number-they-can-sign/
Go Gophers!!