(04-15-2017 12:58 PM)panama Wrote:  

(04-14-2017 02:22 PM)Love and Honor Wrote:  If they really want to prevent 'oversigning' they need to cut scholarship amounts per team down by at least ten. The worst players at an elite program will hardly ever see the field but they take it because they're at Alabama or Ohio State or whatever. However, their coaches do care because it means they have ten really good players on their team who could be starting at a good P5, which would push decent players at the bottom of those rosters to low P5s and good G5s, which would keep cascading from there. We don't need to get crazy and go down to 53 like the NFL, but going from 85 to something around 70 would still allow teams to have plenty of depth for their programs and increase competitive balance.

So you're advocating cutting almost 2000 kids out of a scholarship?

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Sure. It means less subsidy from other students and maybe even more scholarships for academics instead of athletics.

Now I don't see it happening. The powers want the depth, not just to keep people away from the competition, but to allow for their recruiting mistakes. Of course, that also means the powers get to take more academic and character risks. I don't think that's a good thing. They could easily go to 75 and probably 70.