Roster limits mean for the future of college football? | College Football Enquirer

Ross Dellenger & Dan Wetzel write about the three lawsuits against NCAA and the three hundred million settlement that will see college football teams roster expanded to one hundred and five scholarship players. Though this is good to hear for student athletes, according to dan & Ross this will have an effect of skewing competitive balance in the sport and the blue bloods of the power conferences will be more efficient at the recruitment of athletes away from mid to lower tier universities. Listen to the full conversation on the ‘College Football Enquirer. ’ Follow the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

Football wise if you can have 20 more scholarships however you’re at 100 for football and five players.

I am kinda attempting at it Senpai, attempting to understand it.

I do not wish to reach a hasty decision.

That reduces talent at the top, doesn’t it?

That’s right, you know like lets say Ohio State had 100 and 5 now that would be 20 more children that are Ohio State full scholarship players, 20 fewer children will say.

Okay, I am going to play at the middle of the big 10 right?

It does, and it filters down, however Ohio State might have 100 and 30 guys in its program right now.

That means there is actually thirty-five guys that are now actually more free to be anywhere.

Right, does it balance it or is this, uh, my, my, my, my initial reaction is this will make it very, very, very difficult not only for Midamerican conferences and for Mountain West and things like that but for even middle of the pack type of team.

And Ryan day running around with five more scholarships to offer each year is not necessary.

What are; what are you hearing or?

What are your thoughts?

Yes, for sure.

Um I think, you know, every rule change that we’ve seen Dan over the last few years just magnifies it pretty much between I guess the blue bloods of the sport and everybody else.

This is another one of them.

That is why the big 10 and SEC, uh, requested the NCAA to increase the roster limits, uh, particularly for football.

120.

And I think 110, uh, as opposed to the AC C big 12 in the G five who are more in the 90 to 100 range.

Of course, there is a rationale for that.

Right.

Uh, they, yeah, they, so they would, they basically settled in the middle as close in the middle, I guess as they could get at 105.

But I accede to your right.

Er, maybe, one would say, the add-on 20 scholarships, um, are the add-on 20 players that are subtracted from the middle of the power four and then that equals the middle of the power four taking away from the G five and it decreases, Dan.

Right.

Possibly it is a four team in any of these down below the 64.

Looks like it’s 70 with Notre Dame, I am not quite good with my math and typos, it’s not dame players the team is not the best.

Okay then I will, I will leave you to do that.

Oh but promise me this, here’s a, here’s a note though.

Well, at the moment I am not sure but there are probably at least ten in twenty big college football teams that have a paid roster of 95/100 maybe a hundred and five players, right?

Since the NIO collect the walk ons are not really walk ons.

Right.

Yes, they are, they’re receiving tuition by the NIO Collective .

Err, and that is actually being done fairly often.

Now you’ll have it right.

You'll have the ability.

Yes, they should officially give out scholarships and then in addition to that, as Dan is all red, then they will be red share and that, that will be uh big.

Now, the thing is, uh, you can only put so many guys on the court in the, in the field, but this should, in recruiting wise.

What I mean is that is 1400 scholarships out there that would vanish and there are tiers in the big 10, and there are tiers in the sec, and so on.

That's why I don't.

The last thing most of the big 10 wants is, is Michigan Ohio State with an extra 20 guys.