FBS Roster Limits Dropping to 105

[Son of Eli]

This should punch more talent down to the FCS level

https://www.dailynebraskan.com/sports/what-new-roster-limits-could-mean-for-college-football/article_42537434-a85a-11ef-975b-6b85d787e3e9.html

[Bill]

Son of Eli,

Yes - potentially. However, the 85 scholarship cap is being eliminated. If schools like Nebraska want to award more than 85 (the old limit), it will be counted against their $22 million/22 % "cap" of revenue sharing money! This is going to be really messy and interesting. FCS could benefit, but some of the bigger schools could theoretically consume more football scholarships.
https://www.duanemorris.com/alerts/ncaa_student_athlete_settlement_proposal_takes_bes t_shot_resolving_three_antitrust_cases_0824.html

[wcugrad95]

Agree - if the big schools are offering up to the 105 limit as scholarships (or at least more than the current 85), you'll see particularly younger guys signing with a name-brand P4 or G5 program with those extra schollies vs in the past they had to decide between an FCS full-ride or being a walk-on. It could be good for FCS from the guys who get displaced from the really big P4 rosters, and it could be good for us when guys sign at the #86 - #105 scholarship player but then are forced to move on the next year as the big boys do a lot of turonver (think Free Agency but FCS getting guys who in the past would have just sat on the bench at bigger schools for several years).

It is definitely going to get messy, and a bunch of kids are going to find themselves looking for a place to land either from a poor decision of going into the portal, or from being in essence "cut" from their current schools.

[lionsrking2]

Personally I think it will result in a net drain of raw talent as more opportunities arise up the chain. No doubt at the FBS level there will be a purge of current walk-ons but many of those can't play dead and will simply decide to give up football, remain where they are as students or transfer to an academic institution that plays D3. The better guys may jump in the portal or may be awarded scholarships at their present school as a result of the new allotments. But what is likely to happen is that FBS schools who wish to make the full investment, will entice more kids at lower levels to jump in the portal because they'll have more scholarships to play with. The tweener prospect out of high will now have more options and the kids who blow up into great players at the FCS level will now have more options if they choose to leave. The good ones aren't leaving solid FCS situations to walk-on at FBS schools, but if there are more scholarship opportunities they are far more likely to do so.

[AmsterBison]

There are going to be some interesting roster management decisions. Nebraska has 80 freshmen/redshirt freshmen with 20 verbals.

[ursus arctos horribilis]

This should punch more talent down to the FCS level

https://www.dailynebraskan.com/sports/what-new-roster-limits-could-mean-for-college-football/article_42537434-a85a-11ef-975b-6b85d787e3e9.html

This is primarily an FBS story, and tangentially trickles down the line. If you have FBS in the title (correctly) and FBS is the main focus, then going forward if you could put the thread in the FBS Discussion forum it will help drive some traffic to that forum and we will all still see it so could you help me in the way I'm trying to organize the board next go around?

I'm moving it over there, I'd just rather not have to do that whenever someone put an FBS thread in the FCS area.