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It means that in the past 4 years y'all have brought in 110+ when there is 85 spots available. No one is claiming wrong doing. Just stating stats. I personally don't care what other schools do. And to your previous question, UF does not oversign either.

Without that rule we could sign 3 more. I would wait and see how many we take before everyone gets upset. We will take only enough to fill 85 spots, after that signing room or not, we will be done. Not sure on how many that will be due to early drafted juniors, but we should have room for many this year- which as others have indicated is why we took fewer last year.

I'm not upset at all. We only take enough to fill 85 spots or less also. Just look at our class this past class. We are under 80 now. We haven't had 85 in a few years.

Not sure where the 3 more are coming from. Like I said earlier, we won't even fill up to 85 after this class, we are seriously short of the scholly limit now. I think people aren't understanding what is going on. We have room for around 33 this year, PROVIDED that at least 8 of them are EEs. We can only take 25 in the 2013 class, but we have room to backcount around 8 to the 2012 class because we only took around 17 (after you backcount those EEs to 2011) which is where the discrepancy comes in.

Contrary to popular belief, there is apparently NO LIMIT on the number of early enrollees a team can bring in. Other than the room you have under the 25-cap in the previous class.

I made this account to reply to you. You need to understand the rules to understand the meaning of oversigning. Oversigning is not actually possible, overcommitting should be a more appropriate word. Oversigning is when you sign A.) either more players than 85, or B.) sign more than 25 players in one given class.

The one class does not include EE's from this upcoming year. EE's are included in the previous class. Therefore when UGA signed 16 players for their 2012 class they reserved space for 9 players in the 2013 class to EE for the 2012 class. These players enroll in january and are only included in class rankings as class members. The 9 players that UGA has room to sign to add to the 2012 class does not count against the 25 that UGA is available to sign for 2013.

UGA has the space to sign 30+ and stay under the limit of 85. They can not sign more than 25 for the 2013 class, which does not include 2013's EE's. If UGA wants to sign any EE's in 2014 than they should not sign the full 25 for 2013. UGA would not have this opportunity if they had signed a full class of 25 for 2012. They had 3 count towards the 2011 class, Mark Beard, Faton Bauta, and Keith Marshall. This is not that hard to understand.

Oversigning is not possible because the SEC will not allow a class to exceed 25 scholarships.

That is what I was thinking, but wasn't sure.

No, those do not count.

Of any team out there UGA is the one school along with Vandy who do not oversign. Any fan of a team who does has zero reason to be in this thread pointing fingers because even with over 30 we are not oversigning. I really just smh at the lack of knowledge of a very basic concept. Thanks Paul for the article. We should have another big week with commitments (we are already on fire with 2 and at least 1 tomorrow).

UGA and Vandy are the only ones that don't.

You mean how many will actually get punished for things that our "peers" would simply turn a blind eye to? I would guess not very many, UGA is going into 2012 with not even 70 scholarship players, out of 85.

Of UGA's 3 Early Enrollees last year, only 2 can be back-counted to 2011, unless the 28 count limit was still in place. That makes 8 EE's + 25 = 33 signees for this class.

You do realize that we are having to start walk ons this year due to kicking off high 4 stars who all saw significat time last year and we dubbed for potential starting roles this year at a postion that we are so thin our 3 deep might include a kicker (joking, it would actually be a punter). I hope you are not taking yourself seriously if you are implying that they were removed to make room for a bigger class. Because we are so low right now on numbers right now, we could probably sign a full 30+ class this year and still have room for them.