Dandy Don clearing up the new signing rules

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Dandy Don: LSU signed 21 players in the early signing period, including graduate transfer kicker Cole Tracy. How many more players can LSU sign in this 2018 class?

Napolitano: Four. LSU used all of its allotted 25 slots for the 2017 signing class.

 
Dandy Don: What are the rules pertaining to signing more than 25 and have they changed? In the past, teams could sign more than 25 initial counters per year by back-counting early enrollees to the previous class if that class had not signed its full 25. Can this still be done, or is back-counting in this way no longer allowed since the rule changes in April?

Napolitano: A school can sign more than 25 recruits provided it did not use all 25 signing slots in the previous signing class. In order to be counted in the previous signing class, the signee has to enroll at mid-term and replace a current student-athlete that graduated in December or the previous academic year. There is a change in the rules. Athletes who sign in a particular class are locked into that signing class whether or not they enroll in that fall. Schools can no longer count gray shirts or players placed in junior colleges in future signing classes once they sign the letter of intent with a particular group. 

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