(05-12-2023 02:35 PM)Purple Wrote:  So, when a player is forced to leave the team to keep his scholly, does that give the coach another scholly to use? If so, what prevents the coach from bringing in 200 players, seeing which ones are best, and forcing the bottom 100-and-whatever to leave the team but keep the scholly?

The “Houston Nutt rule” did (until the portal because made it obsolete) he liked to bring in almost 40 new recruits then weed them out and/or squirrel them away at a JUCO to go back and get later. You’re supposed to only grab 25 signees, which even with 25 a year and 5 classes add up together you can’t get over 85 total. A whole lot of players get squeezed out in that situation. And say he signed 38, that’s 13 players that would fall down to those below, adding other schools that over recruited and you have a whole lot of hoarding by these P5s.

Also Purple, funny as you mention that as the Pitt Panthers did exactly that back in the early 70s. They brought in upwards of 100 freshman and threw them out there to weed out the keepers. A couple humongous recruiting classes with guys like Tony Dorsett and Matt Cavanaugh in there and they were went from a bad program to winning the nation title in 1976. I had an old coach that played on that title team, he said it was nuts.

https://archive.triblive.com/news/class-...al-season/