SI: Sources: NCAA Moving Closer to an Immediate Expansion of Signing Class Limit

[BleedGopher]

per Ross:

College football signing classes are expected to soon grow in size.

NCAA officials are moving closer to an immediate expansion of the annual 25-person signing limit as a way for coaches to replace players they’ve lost to the burgeoning transfer portal. The NCAA Division I Football Oversight Committee is finalizing a proposal that would change the signing limit this cycle in what’s being described as a one-year waiver of relief until a permanent policy is created.

Multiple officials spoke to Sports Illustrated under the condition of anonymity given the sensitive nature of ongoing deliberations on the proposals.

A compromise is finally emerging among a group of proposals. Under the plan, schools can sign 25 new players while gaining additional signee spots for every player who transfers out of their program—up to a certain limit. The extra spots would be based on the number of players who enter the transfer portal under their own volition and would be capped at a figure, such as seven.

Sources: NCAA Moving Toward Signing Class Expansion

The move would allow football coaches to replace players they’ve lost to the burgeoning transfer portal.

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Go Gophers!!

 

[fmlizard]

One step closer to every 4 and 5 star starting off at the historically powerful programs, then just dispersing around the nation if they don't start.

 

[hungan1]

Will the Gophers benefit from this? Any thoughts?

I would think that they will be at the receiving end of talent upgrades like this class with Pinckney and Wright. It can be a tricky affair.

 

[GopherinPhilly]

Please just end the NCAA oversight of college football and let the conferences align and manage themselves...the time is come to end this farce

 

[fmlizard]

Please just end the NCAA oversight of college football and let the conferences align and manage themselves...the time is come to end this farce

be careful what you wish for. a whole bunch of alternate farces will be turned loose under every conference for themselves

 

[MplsGopher]

I disagree that this is really an expansion of the 25 limit. It is in a sense, sure, but it's not any kind of guaranteed extra amount - it's purely based off how many of your players (up to some limit, like 7) choose to leave the team of their own choice via the transfer portal.

 

[MplsGopher]

One step closer to every 4 and 5 star starting off at the historically powerful programs, then just dispersing around the nation if they don't start.

How many 4*/5* players on average don't already start off at powerful programs?

 

[Gophergrandpa]

Will the Gophers benefit from this? Any thoughts?

I would think that they will be at the receiving end of talent upgrades like this class with Pinckney and Wright. It can be a tricky affair.

The overall scholarship limit will stay at 85. So this will help schools that lose significant numbers of upperclassmen to the transfer portal. If this goes on for more than a few years (to sort out COVID disruptions), consequence might be that 4 and 5 stars at helmet schools that aren’t starting after 2 years will disburse more quickly to other schools, so that the helmet schools can keep bringing in 30+ kids per recruiting class.

 

[hungan1]

The overall scholarship limit will stay at 85. So this will help schools that lose significant numbers of upperclassmen to the transfer portal. If this goes on for more than a few years (to sort out COVID disruptions), consequence might be that 4 and 5 stars at helmet schools that aren’t starting after 2 years will disburse more quickly to other schools, so that the helmet schools can keep bringing in 30+ kids per recruiting class.

Alabama, tOSU, and other P5 schools may even encourage players to leave through the portal for that reason. Hopefully, the players that they jettison are not duds. Lower-tier teams cannot afford a recruiting mistake.

 

[MplsGopher]

Then the Gophers can just encourage their own players on the bottom of the depth chart to depart via the transfer portal, opening up slots for us to sign those Alabama, Clemson, etc. "cast-offs".

It rolls down hill.