(09-16-2021 12:18 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(09-16-2021 11:05 AM)Wedge Wrote:  

(09-14-2021 10:46 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  With the new more liberal transfer rules, your going to see teams in certain positions get hammered by a huge wave of transfers (say when a popular G5 coach is poached by a P5).

The concern wouldn't be for just any coaching change, it would be if a coaching change might be perceived as a negative by a large number of players, and motivate them to explore transferring -- for example, if a well-liked coach like Tom Allen at Indiana was replaced by a hardass like Bill O'Brien. Or if a coach leaving a successful program goes to a team that is thin on talent and several players from his former team want to follow him to the new place. That seems like a bigger problem in basketball than football, though basketball doesn't have the annual cap on scholarships.

(09-16-2021 10:31 AM)domer1978 Wrote:  Just do away with scholarship caps. If a school wants to give out a 1000 scholarships and kids want to play their let it happen.

I mentioned this issue in another thread. If the NCAA gets rid of rules that run afoul of the Alston case, or if they are forced to by a court, the scholarship caps in each sport probably have to go away, as being anticompetitive -- but a roster limit for each team in each sport would be permissible because it is a rule of competition in the sport, like the number of players that can be on the field or court at the same time, and not a rule relating to compensation.

BYU has effectively ended scholarship limits by sport with their NIL deal providing money to 120 players on the football roster.

I'm not too concerned about that because in the vast majority of cases, the people providing NIL money are going to want themselves and their money to be associated with star players and not guys who only get on the field during practice.

At any rate, a roster limit would take care of that issue, because very few elite athletes are going to want to stay at a school where they are not on the roster, even if their tuition, room, and board are taken care of.