NCAA is expected to approve increased scholarships across multiple sports

The "pine" might as well be replaced with lazy boy recliners in an air conditioned booth

Hate to be right; but I have seen this coming for several years, and have warned baseball and softball fans about how this will make us less competitive in those sports for about the last 5 or 6 years.

As for football, both basketballs and volleyball, all have been headcount sports for years. They just raised the scholarship limit to equal the roster limit in those sports; that won't hurt nearly as much as the changes in the stick and ball sports.

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Originally Posted by Atown cajun

That’s the last thing we needed. More talent riding the pine in the P5.

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Hmmm but the narrative for the past decade has been that "kids these days" don't want to ride the pine anymore.

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Originally Posted by CajunJack55

Hmmm but the narrative for the past decade has been that "kids these days" don't want to ride the pine anymore.

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That's the point I've been trying to make..

Riding the bench at Alabama is more fun (to some) than playing in front of 10k people at Cajun Field.

Bigger school, bigger parties, better amenities, etc, etc.

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Originally Posted by jaxmc1023

That's the point I've been trying to make..

Riding the bench at Alabama is more fun (to some) than playing in front of 10k people at Cajun Field.

Bigger school, bigger parties, better amenities, etc, etc.

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That may be why they stay.

I don't think that's why they go.

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Hmmm but the narrative for the past decade has been that "kids these days" don't want to ride the pine anymore.

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For 100k a semesters I would have spit shined the bench after every series.

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Originally Posted by VObserver

Hate to be right; but I have seen this coming for several years, and have warned baseball and softball fans about how this will make us less competitive in those sports for about the last 5 or 6 years.

As for football, both basketballs and volleyball, all have been headcount sports for years. They just raised the scholarship limit to equal the roster limit in those sports; that won't hurt nearly as much as the changes in the stick and ball sports.

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Give it a little time, these new numbers will decrease in a few years. As it becomes “dead money” both on a university’s and NIL’s side, there will be a quiet move to do away with the drunken sailor on payday approach to financial management at the P2 level. One day, they’ll run the numbers on pine time athletes and see a 7 or 8 figure number that could be used elsewhere.

For example TTU’s million dollar SB pitcher. How many FB 5th and 6th string place holder’s NIL and scholarship dollars could be part of a million dollar package?

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Originally Posted by ZoomZoom

Give it a little time, these new numbers will decrease in a few years. As it becomes “dead money” both on a university’s and NIL’s side, there will be a quiet move to do away with the drunken sailor on payday approach to financial management at the P2 level. One day, they’ll run the numbers on pine time athletes and see a 7 or 8 figure number that could be used elsewhere.

For example TTU’s million dollar SB pitcher. How many FB 5th and 6th string place holder’s NIL and scholarship dollars could be part of a million dollar package?

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Several, but not enough to buy you a Natty.

105 in football sounds very excessive. I wonder our coaches preferences if they had a say in the matter?

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Originally Posted by VObserver

Several, but not enough to buy you a Natty.

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But maybe just enough to keep someone else from reaching out to get their "natty"

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Originally Posted by R1Letterman

But maybe just enough to keep someone else from reaching out to get their "natty"

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The increase to 105 in football without also increasing the roster limit will not have too great an effect beyond the added expense of the extra 20 scholarships; it will simply convert 20 former walk-ons into scholarship players at schools who choose to fund them all.

For schools like us, it simply gives us a few extra scholarships that we can use in the rare event that more quality recruits are available. I am not certain, but I seem to recall that the limit on signees per class is now gone, so long as you stay under the limit of total scholarships allowed.

Recruiting is now different, but not necessarily more difficult than it was before this increase in scholarships allowed.

They wont simply pay those walkons, they will first try to get better "scholarship" caliber players.
Then when those walkons "go down" to a different school, that school is now having to pay for walkons