Interesting article on UT recruiting

[3L with debt]

What matters if it will work or not... I couldn't care less if CLK is a scholarship "ho" or not.

[triadvolfan]

Originally Posted by GoGators01uf

It would have worked last season, also. The SEC just passed a rule stating that a team can no longer sign more than 28 players. The previous limit was 35.

SEC passes limits on football signings; limit is now 28 in a single class - Sports from the Press-Register - al.com

This is why I think this is interesting. By the way, the SEC is calling this new rule the "Ole Miss" rule since they've oversigned 4 out of the past 5 years. Recruiting is a game of relationships...and this has the potential to have some kids and schools really upset. Just throwing out my .02 but also interested in what y'all thought.

I didn't think there was a limit to how many you could sign prior to this year. Just a limit of 25 to how many you could actually give scholarships to.

Regardless, I think this rule will severely reduce the offers to kids that are struggling to qualify. If an SEC school wants to bring in the max of 25 kids in a given year that only leaves them room for 3 nonqualifiers. I wonder how many kids were really getting burned? A lot of the oversigned kids were surefire nonquals so for those kids oversigning wasn't hurting them.

[85Destiny]

Originally Posted by GoGators01uf

Sorry if this is a dupe. Lane Kiffin has offered 187 kids for the 2010 season. With only room for 28 max schollies now, what happens if more than 28 kids decide to play for UT? I know coaches extend scholarship offers to more than 28 kids each recruiting season, but 187 sounds like a huge amount. Will this hurt recruiting down the road for you guys? What are your opinions?

The Tennessee Vols want You and You and You! | Gridironstuds.com Blog

This approach is not any different than many other programs.

When your class is full then it is full. This is common sense really.

[Rasputin_Vol]

Originally Posted by GoGators01uf

Sorry if this is a dupe. Lane Kiffin has offered 187 kids for the 2010 season. With only room for 28 max schollies now, what happens if more than 28 kids decide to play for UT? I know coaches extend scholarship offers to more than 28 kids each recruiting season, but 187 sounds like a huge amount. Will this hurt recruiting down the road for you guys? What are your opinions?

The Tennessee Vols want You and You and You! | Gridironstuds.com Blog

According to Volfan X, last season Fulmer's staff made offers to about 70 or so players at about mid spring. 187 sounds like a lot, but I have a feeling we are not the only school with 100+ offers out there and it will all work itself out...

I'm sure if it gets down to nut cutting time in mid-December, he will tell some kids to set up other visits.

[Rasputin_Vol]

Actually, I lied. The former staff actually did offer well over 100 players according to X...

The Edge on TonyBasilio.com

Now for 2009, Rivals records show that 196 total scholarship offers were made by Coach Fulmer and Coach Kiffin combined staff's. Of the total offers, 28 offers (or roughly 14 percent) were made to prospects from Florida and 19 (approximately 10 percent) offers were made to prospects from Georgia.

For the entire 2008 recruiting season or period, this is more telling in my opinion because this is solely Coach Fulmer’s staff; the UT staff offered a total of 168 scholarships. 22 of these scholarship offers were made to prospects in Florida and 16 scholarship offers were made to prospects in Georgia. That is 13% and 9.5% respectively of the total offers went to prospects in those two states.

[Sabanocchio]

Orgeron offered way more than this at Ole Miss. You have a clause in the offer saying that if a certain amount of players are taken at a position or a certain amount of time expires, they are no longer valid. There are all sorts of clauses they put in these offers to keep from overfilling the class.

[T-TownVol]

Originally Posted by Sabanocchio

Orgeron offered way more than this at Ole Miss. You have a clause in the offer saying that if a certain amount of players are taken at a position or a certain amount of time expires, they are no longer valid. There are all sorts of clauses they put in these offers to keep from overfilling the class.

The sad part is, that you have to bring this to peoples' attention.

[Sabanocchio]

Originally Posted by T-TownVol

The sad part is, that you have to bring this to peoples' attention.

Trolls will troll.

[kidbourbon]

Originally Posted by GAVol

I think I just recently read where Michigan is doing basically the same thing.

Rich Rod is doing it hard core. Rich Rod will have to end up telling a lot of kids they no longer have scolly offers.

[GreyWolf1129]

Originally Posted by GoGators01uf

This was just passed a few days ago. It was done to protect the kids coming in. Many of them have been burned (specifically Ole Miss). Ole Miss would sign them knowing they wouldn't make it in right away, or telling them to grey shirt or walk on and they'd get a scholy later (but never getting that scholly).

GaVol - Michigan may very well be doing this, I don't know. This new rule only applies for the SEC as of now. I'm sure other conferences will adopt it soon.

Hey Gator. Welcome aboard.

I've read most of your posts, I know you run a Gator board...I know you're a Gator fan (duh), blah, blah, blah.

I have no problem with you being here. You are quite a departure from the average Gator fan who shows up here.

I do have one small request: Is there any way you could teach lawgator just a smidge of the class you show on this board?

Thanks a ton.

Go Vols.

[governmentmule]

is this because somebody signed like 30 or so players last year?

[vtvol98]

Here's a related story which explains the connection between oversigning by Ole Miss and the amount of players grayshirted in various Mississippi community colleges.

SEC ban*of oversigning recruits could lead to nationwide ban - Andy Staples - SI.com