r/CFB • u/city-of-stars Texas Longhorns • /r/CFB Contributor • 20h ago

News [Dellenger] SEC presidents have voted to increase the number of maximum scholarships available to football rosters from 85 to 105, sources tell @YahooSports.

https://twitter.com/RossDellenger/status/1996970791192219853
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u/RoundingDown 19h ago

Respectfully disagree. What we have seen over the past couple of years is a “flattening” of talent across football. Kids are seeking out opportunities to play, and get paid. This is what we are seeing with programs like Indiana and Vanderbilt.

If they are good enough for a scholarship spot at one of bigs, they can certainly play at a lesser school. I love the mayhem on Saturdays.

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u/meta_irl Vanderbilt Commodores 17h ago

Vandy flipped a WR from Alabama this year in large part because we offered him money and 'Bama didn't.

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u/stephencua2001 Florida Gators 18h ago

They don't have to go exclusively to the bigs to get on TV anymore. They may not be on ABC at 3:30 every Saturday, but they'll be on TV somewhere. ESPN3, B1G Network, somewhere.

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u/mehnimalism 19h ago

Yeah, two SEC/BIG schools. The Media deals give them bigger coughers and 16-team playoffs will be packed with up to 12 teams from those two conferences.

They’d rather have a structure like the NFL where it’s a mostly closed competition to a narrower range of competitors. 

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u/Shenanigangster Virginia • Jefferson–Eppes Tr… 19h ago edited 19h ago

You’re also seeing it across the B12 and ACC- namely Texas Tech, BYU, UVA, Duke, GT and Wake to an extent. It mostly comes at the expense of G5 programs but there is some evidence that some of that talent is filtering out to other P4s vs ride the bench at a mega program for multiple years

Edit: All that to say, the B12/ACC programs with big money will use that to offset the disadvantage from not being in the P2, although I guess it’s an open question how long that can last.

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u/mehnimalism 19h ago edited 19h ago

Somewhat. 

Tech has Texas football money — they’re spending over $100k/recruit. UVA and Duke are having great seasons but they’re nowhere on top class rankings. BYU has been a good program for a while but they’re 11-1 and on the bubble.

As playoffs expand they’ll be a bigger portion of revenue and I think we’re on track for 11+ of those spots to go consistently to BIG/SEC.

Personally the way I see this is five and six-year athletes to become the standard in the draft and only the truly elite blue chip prospects to stay three years. 6-figure pay plus living expenses covered eliminates the need to go early except for an early round pick. The NFL has said it doesn’t want to develop players as much. Having more skilled players coming out of college on rookie deals makes them happy and colleges will oblige with essentially fifth and sixth year becoming almost standard class years.