Football Scholarship Limit To 105.

[LSUDad]

Sources: NCAA to increase scholarships for sports, with football getting roster limit of 105 players

INDIANAPOLIS — Dozens more scholarship spots are coming to NCAA sports.

During a meeting Tuesday, power conference commissioners finalized new roster-size limits that pave the way for athletic departments to distribute millions of dollars in new scholarships to athletes in, most notably, football, baseball and softball. Conference officials with knowledge of the figures spoke to Yahoo Sports under condition of anonymity.

As part of the new revenue-sharing model — beginning in 2025-26 academic year — by-sport scholarship restrictions are eliminated, and schools are permitted to offer scholarships to the entirety of their rosters. The new roster limit figures are not final until the approval of House settlement terms.

[houtiger]

I am not sure of all that means.  In the 60's, maybe 70's, not sure when the 85 roster limit was applied, Alabama, Michigan, Ohio St, the BIG's, not sure about LSU, they used the slots from 85 - 100 to sign players that would probably not play for Gumps, but Bear did not want them on an Auburn, Ga. or LSU team playing against him.  The transfer rule was tough, sit out a year if you transferred to another school.  Transfers were rare as I recall.  Kids sat on the bench at Gumps, scholly's #86 - 100 might never see the field.  Maybe you hoped to play as a Sr., maybe you did, maybe not.

Now, in a case like LSU, where we are thin at RB this year, Williams, Jackson, and Caden Durham are all we know will be there.  Emery will be there, but will he recover to his best form ever?  Ally Broussard never did.  We hear Trey Holly will be there, but it is still a question.  Would you like to sign one quality transfer RB?  I would.

The reason that they cut the limit to 85 as I recall was to create better balance in the NCAA.  You might question whether that happened, with Gumps, Ohio St., Ga., Fla. St., LSU, appearing in the 4 team college playoff so often.  The only reason TX did not appear more often was deficient coaching, just my opinion.  Clemson jumped into the party for a while, so that was new.  But that second tier of teams mostly did not move up, teams like Penn St., Michigan (before the last couple of years under Harbaugh), Fla. since Tebow, Auburn.  Now imagine if the elites siphon off another 60 - 100  four-star athletes, is it going to promote competitiveness?  I don't think so.  It will be back to the 60's.

At least if a kid is riding the bench at Gumps or Ohio St. he will be able to transfer and play.  That will be different from the 60's.

[Nutriaitch]

17 hours ago, houtiger said:

 

The reason that they cut the limit to 85 as I recall was to create better balance in the NCAA.  You might question whether that happened, with Fla. St., LSU, appearing in the 4 team college playoff so often.  The only reason TX did not appear more often was deficient coaching, just my opinion.  Clemson jumped into the party for a while, so that was new. 

Florida St. and LSU have each only been to the playoffs once.  Just like Texas.

Clemson has been twice as many times as those 3 teams have combined.
Michigan and Washington each have more appearances than the 3 you mentioned. 
Not to mention Oklahoma.

 

but again, let's just look at money.

according to This Report, LSU Athletics profited $1.36 million in 2023.
according to This Report, LSU Cost of Attendance is roughly $35,618 per year (for Louisiana residents)
This Chart breaks down the additional scholarships in each sport.

 

Using just the sports LSU participates in at the NCAA level, they will be adding 242 new scholarships.

That's $8,500,000.00 that needs to be added to the "expenses" column of the ledger.
We'll be starting to pay players directly now (which is different than NIL).  Reports from SEC Media days indicates the "cap" will be around $15 million per school for football.  JUST Football.
And we all know that Title IX will not allow the school to only pay football players, so there will be payments to all sports.  We just don't know how much yet.
Let's just say it breaks out to an "average" of $1 mil per other team on campus.  Basketball will likely be significantly higher than Swim/Dive obviously. So we're just guessing an the average.

 

LSU participates in 17 varsity sports not named football.  So that's another $17 million in the expense column.

New Expenses

Additional scholarships: $8.5 mil
Football Payroll: $15 mil
Other Sports Payroll: $17 mil

 

That's $40,500,000.00 in new expenses.

again, LSU athletics turned a $1.36 million profit in 2023.

Where the hell is the other $39,140,000.00 going to come from?

 

 

 

and that's for the far and away most profitable athletic department in the state.

what about schools like USL?

they lost $8million last year.
they're adding 180.7 new scholarships (at an average of $29,000 per).  So another $5.2 mil in the expense column.

they're over $13 million in the hole before giving any money to any players.