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So you are telling me that with 36 commits only 25 of those guys are going to sign? The 85 total scholarship limit isn't exceeded, but I don't see how any coach still gets commits from kids when they already have 33 or 34 and they already know that only 25 can sign.

EE's would be one thing but the rule has been around long enough that you can't load up on them and show your ass to the 25 limit rule. At least I wouldn't think.

IMO, schollies should be yearly anyway and not 4 years

Eh, I agree and disagree. I would like to see there be more of an incentive for good performance a la grade requirements in academic scholarships, but I could see it getting abused with guys getting cut who are playing well and playing hard to make room for some freshman "phenom."

Some schools do it each way.

Spurrier operates on a yearly basis. He says you have to earn them each year just like you have to earn your way in life.

That's exactly what happens. UGA has 9 EE's that count to the '12 class (that only had 16 initial counters).

You guys only had 16 signees last year?

Because I guarantee you that there are schools in the SEC last year and this year that will have over 25 kids that sign letters of intent. The 85 total will not be exceeded, but there will be schools that sign more than 25 kids in February. I wasn't asking about the 85 number. I asked about the 25 number.

Ratt, take 6 early entries and 5 grey shirts and 36 works fine. End result is 25 per class and 85 total. This is one area that is impossible to hide from the NCAA. You cannot hide it. Can it result in a kid showing up on campus and bein told they can't honor his scholarship? Yes. Again, if you are signee #35 in a class of 25, you are potentially a dumbass.

We signed 19 last year, but 3 were backcounted to the '11 class. We haven't signed 25 in quite a while. Uga had around 75 scholarship players on roster this year. (not counting walk-ons that were awarded schollies)

I agree with you about them being dumbasses if what you say if correct. I've heard of like one or two kids taking a greyshirt but I've never heard of five or six. Now that the rule has been around for a few years in the SEC that the EE's would already have caught up with schools.

I do get what you're saying though. However they do it, as long as the 85 number limit isn't exceeded then whatever. I was honestly just trying to figure out why they even made a 25 number rule in the first place. Someone asked me about it earlier and I just had to shake my head and say that I had no fvcking idea.

No, but I don't want to see a guy who might not be a starter but his trying as best he can and is at least a good player get cut to make room for some freshman. It's one thing to be a lazy slacker, it's another to be a career backup. The latter can still be a good person and a hard-worker and they deserve to stay on. Considering how few of these guys actually go pro, there's more to the scholarship and their future than just playing football.

My schollie was the same way on the academic side. Maybe the athletes have something written in their scholarships that say if you keep a certain GPA that you still get to keep your scholarship though. You would think they would have something like that.

Whether they do or not beats the fvck out of me. I don't know how you say that you aren't "doing your part" and yank a kids schollie for athletics. Seems like a slippery slope.

Ratt, I think you and I both agree it is a crock of shit. We had a decommitt at noon on NSD that was the 35th player Miami signed. They had 8 early enrollees and I think two that didn't qualify, which kept them at 25.