Rumor on the other site is the NCAA is doing away with the 25 scholarship/year rule, but keeping the 85 man roster limit. The rationale is that it will help combat the portal in years when teams lose multiple players to transfer.
This is an interesting time in collegiate athletics, and while it seems like more and more control (and money) is being shifted to the athletes, I suspect that the NCAA will have some counter punches of their own. While I haven't read through the entire proposal, this is interesting to me, as it gives schools leverage when kids enter the portal. Players who opt to test the portal wire may discover that their current program has elected to use their scholarship on an incoming high school player or transfer, and that their window for returning to their current team has closed. Another scenario will be that when programs lose bunches of kids to the portal, they can now recruit 35-45 high school kids in a single class to help restock their rosters.
This is an interesting time in collegiate athletics, and while it seems like more and more control (and money) is being shifted to the athletes, I suspect that the NCAA will have some counter punches of their own. While I haven't read through the entire proposal, this is interesting to me, as it gives schools leverage when kids enter the portal. Players who opt to test the portal wire may discover that their current program has elected to use their scholarship on an incoming high school player or transfer, and that their window for returning to their current team has closed. Another scenario will be that when programs lose bunches of kids to the portal, they can now recruit 35-45 high school kids in a single class to help restock their rosters.