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From ESPN Chat:

Chase (Miami)


Last four seasons, Alabama has signed 113 players to Michigan State's 88; Mississippi State 113 to 93; Arkansas 109 to OSU's 79. Are you missing this, Adam, in all of your bowl coverage? Kind of an advantage, no?
Adam Rittenberg
(12:29 PM)


It's a major problem, Chase, and it should be addressed from the league level. That's an SEC issue, and it's getting out of control. I couldn't see this type of oversigning happening in the Big Ten.

I was under the impression that it was an Arkansas problem, sorry Delta Hog, I didn't realize it was a league wide thing. Pretty sad.
 

Isn't this a loophole that the SEC takes advantage of?
 



The SEC's signing rule must be 28 each year, no matter how many scholarships are open. The Big Ten rule is each team can over sign 3 players above the available scholarships and not over 28 total.

This could be used as a recruiting advantage for Big Ten schools because the SEC school's that are signing that many recruits must be dropping players to stay under the 85 scholarship limit. It has to be like the old NFL injured reserve status where they could stash players to see if they were really good enough. Those SEC school's must be giving players a sort of live tryout and then showing them the door if they don't pan out. That's a serious advantage over Big Ten schools are honoring more scholarships. This is speculation on my part, but there has to be something to it if teams are signing that many players over a 4 year period.
 


WAGopher said:
The SEC's signing rule must be 28 each year, no matter how many scholarships are open. The Big Ten rule is each team can over sign 3 players above the available scholarships and not over 28 total.

This could be used as a recruiting advantage for Big Ten schools because the SEC school's that are signing that many recruits must be dropping players to stay under the 85 scholarship limit. It has to be like the old NFL injured reserve status where they could stash players to see if they were really good enough. Those SEC school's must be giving players a sort of live tryout and then showing them the door if they don't pan out. That's a serious advantage over Big Ten schools are honoring more scholarships. This is speculation on my part, but there has to be something to it if teams are signing that many players over a 4 year period.
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That's exactly what they are doing. They also don't seem to have as high of a premium on academics so they are losing even more kids to simple academic attrition.

The conferences need to come together and pick a model. The SEC model gives them an advantage and is terrible for the kids. If a kid comes to MN and he isn't as good as we hoped but he still works hard in the classroom and doesn't get into any trouble, he still should have his scholarship honored.
 

The SEC has started to take some steps to curb this after Ole' Miss signed something like 249 players 2-3 years ago. It was to the point the league had to step in and do something. They still have a long way to go though IMO.
 

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