Report: 2 More Scholarships for MBB

[navery12]

Not sure we'd want to take more players anyway since we're not filling all 13, but we have made a lot of offers to 2025 guys

 

[boog204]

I get this for the other sports... But what legitimate high d1 player wants to sign on to be the 15th guy? As it is, most teams 11-13 will hardly ever play and then transfer out.

 

[TheHorde]

Great opportunity to roster developmental guys or reclass guys that might want to enroll early the way Alex did.

 

[UCFan1513]

Makes no sense

 

[FfldCntyFan]

The 105 football scholarships sounds like a "screw you" to non P level FBS schools.

I don't get baseball having nine more than softball as logically schools should want them to offset for title IX purposes.

 

[AllHusky]

softball pitchers can pitch every day more or less

baseball rosters raided by mlb every year, sb not so much

 

[auror]

105 scholarships is asinine. NFL has 67 slots including the practice squad.

 

[Horatio]

Great opportunity to roster developmental guys or reclass guys that might want to enroll early the way Alex did.

Exactly or just to build a stronger practice squad. Some kids can play but don’t want any parts of playing in college, but can get a scholarship and a little pinch of NIL just to practice.

 

[boog204]

Exactly or just to build a stronger practice squad. Some kids can play but don’t want any parts of playing in college, but can get a scholarship and a little pinch of NIL just to practice.

At the D1 level? I mean if I'm a D1 caliber basketball player and can go be the 14th-15th guy at UConn or potentially be a starter at mid/low-mid I'm going to take the scholly where I can play. Maybe I'm in the minority there. I'd think anyone capable of playing D1 would want to play. I wonder what the 15th guy on a D1 squad could expect NIL wise vs. what a mid-major could potentially produce.

 

[uconndennis]

Football should be going the other way... reduce by 20. Just another nail in the G5 coffin

 

[McLovin]

Now I’d like to see the NCAA make 5th year of eligibility available for student athletes who graduate in 4 (or fewer) years in good academic standing (3.0 GPA+?).

5th year covid seniors, IMO, has upped the skill level and competitiveness of college basketball the last few years. The big knock on it was them taking scholarships away from incoming freshmen. Now those freshmen can still have their spots while letting more student athletes get a graduate degree on the schools dime.

 

[superjohn]

This is unbelievably stupid.

 

[HooperScooper]

Don't the women have 15? Anyone know if Geno ever uses all 15?

 

[McLovin]

Can’t wait for Pitino to bring in 15 guys from the portal next year, promise them all a starting spot and see it all blow-up in his face.

 

[Waquoit]

Don't the women have 15? Anyone know if Geno ever uses all 15?

I'm pretty sure it's been 15 for awhile. Stanford had 20 players a few years ago.

 

[Husky68]

Not sure follow the extra 20 for football. How good players are 86 to 105 even on SEC/Big18 teams and how many G5 teams can have that many, and Title lX the girls sports to match, pay players and compete in NIL.

NCAA never does anything for benefit of student/athletes/employees so what am I missing.

 

[UCTitleTown]

This means less walk-ons.

 

[AZHuskiePop]

Football should be going the other way... reduce by 20. Just another nail in the G5 coffin

I can smell the oder of this rotten deal all the way out in the desert
The NCAA has chosen to be an enemy of competition as its apparently owned by the power teams .
Remember under title IX you have to equalize women’s sports so it a double whammy. This could require adding teams.
This is a case of not only rich getting richer and but gaining addition separation from the riff raff.
At a time when schools especially non P ones , are struggling to come up with a plan to meet insanely increasing costs this adds a huge burden.
When your ship is in danger of sinking you lighten the load not increase it.
I wonder how much money changed hands to get this passed they’ve been pushing for additional football scholarships.
for a time as the more D1 players they collect the less availability of talent for G5’s. It smells of antitrust .
We definitely need to sue the NCAA ,Discovery on this case should be interesting.
I really want to know who got paid off.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

softball pitchers can pitch every day more or less

baseball rosters raided by mlb every year, sb not so much

Yeah, but to remain title IX compliant, a school will need to find another women's sport to add scholarships to or not utilize the full available men's scholarships.

 

[ec33]

Good to see baseball players start getting full scholarships. The landscape has changed with college baseball being a more popular choice both with top baseball players and with fans.

 

[Mooch82]

Completely unnecessary to add 2...majority of programs don't even use the 13 anymore. In the transfer portal era it's really difficult to keep those back end scholarship guys for more than a year or two.

 

[ec33]

On the football side, NIL had pretty much eliminated scholarship limits for the big money schools anyway. Between redshirting and the transfer portal, many players will spend two years at major programs and then move on when it appears they are surplus to requirements.

It will be interesting to see if basketball starts doing more of this. Bringing in older prep players to redshirt a season instead of pretending to be "high schoolers." If they work out, they stick around. If not, they move to a more appropriate school (like Providence, for example).

 

[EricSD]

Don't the women have 15? Anyone know if Geno ever uses all 15?

For the most part no, he does not. This coming season has has 14. I'm guessing with the injuries that have decimated the team over the past 3 years, he wishes he'd used more. There were games where the team basically had 7 or so healthy players to suit up...

He's also dipped his toe into the transfer portal much more frequently of late. Most of the transfers in the past were non-entities (didn't really contribute). But lately, the transfers have played key roles, similar to the men's teams under Hurley...

 

[UofCT]

This means less walk-ons.

Or walks on get scholarships

 

[temery]

Is this the ncaa's way of discouraging teams for unionizing?

 

[freescooter]

Seems like this is an overall fu to any non-p4 schools. On what planet do basketball teams need 15 players? It means bigger programs can take guys and essentially stash them to keep them from other lower level teams.

 

[aceboon]

Don't the women have 15? Anyone know if Geno ever uses all 15?

I think they had to postpone a game a couple of seasons ago because they had too many injured players and Geno didn't even have all of his scholarships filled

 

[UCTitleTown]

Or walks on get scholarships

Not at UConn unless they're 3 star walk-ons.

 

[bobbyinaz]

The NCAA didn’t randomly make these changes. This is what the P4 want. This is part of the autonomy all member schools granted them when they gave them the ability make their own rules.

Of course this is designed to benefit them. The goal has always been to price everyone else out of the market. Increasing scholarship numbers is just the beginning.

 

[upstater]

They are going to crush the non-P4 football schools.

There will not be enough good players to compete. EVER. And smaller P4 schools are going to have a very difficult time paying these guys and giving them free scholarships, especially now.

This is a cut-throat move.