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Message: [QUOTE="visitingcock, post: 4342298, member: 6872"] Be that as it may, there are caps. 12.5 for baseball is ridiculous. There are nine positions. add aa designated hitter. Add three more to have four starting pitchers per week.add two fort a bullpen. That’s fifteen weekly contributors Out of a total of 27 team players. Basketball allows three deep for every position. Football allows four deep. Baseball and softball allow less than one scholarship per position. Ok, Softball doesn’t require as many pitchers ( though some conferences are now limiting weekly pitch count). Still, assuming only one starting pitcher, you have only 12.5 schollies for ten positions. The transfer portal can ruin a team. The SEC would like to give 27 schollies per team. Small schools oppose that on the ground of expense and have many more votes than the P-5s. I guess that’s how a Coastal Carolina can win a CWS ( though they could afford 27 schollies.) Keeps the SEC and other P-5s from stocking up. Are baseball and softball going to cause SECession? I doubt it, but the commissioner has cited those two sports as factors the conference is thinking about. [/QUOTE]