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re: Flott “50/50” Now?

Posted on 12/17/18 at 3:21 pm to
Posted by Indiana Tiger
Member since Feb 2005
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Posted on 12/17/18 at 3:21 pm to
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Yes, that signing a "non-football" scholarship makes you sit for two years.

You may be right, but you are going to have to show me the actual rule for me to accept it because it really doesn't make sense.
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Yes, that signing a "non-football" scholarship makes you sit for two years. This prevents Bama from signing 11 "baseball" players every year and giving up on the baseball program. This rule is there for a reason


Like this makes absolutely no sense. What on earth would a team gain from doing this? As soon as one of these guys practiced with the football team, they would count against football. In the first year they would count against the 25 signees and 85 total. In the second year they would only count against the 85. Your example doesn't work.

I'm not familiar with baseball scholarship administration, so there may be some practical reasons why my suggestion wouldn't work, but it ain't this shite (until you can show me otherwise). If he doesn't show up until fall camp (signing deadline should be over by then), or not at all, he would never actually be on a baseball scholarship. However, it would give him a sense of commitment and the football program wouldn't waste a scholarship since it could be applied to the following year.
Posted by moock blackjack
Member since Apr 2008
98267 posts
Posted on 12/17/18 at 5:12 pm to
We need at least one more CB whether it is Flott or whoever. I really liked Banks!
Posted by sabanisarustedspoke
Member since Jan 2007
4950 posts
Posted on 12/17/18 at 7:30 pm to
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You may be right, but you are going to have to show me the actual rule for me to accept it because it really doesn't make sense.




Yea, I really can't tell you where in the "rule book" it is, but I can tell you it is. Basically Bama was signing kids to swimming schollies, baseball shcllies, and every other sport not football so he could have 120 kids on scholarship. Again, I can't show you in the "Rules" its written but I do know that there is a great deal of money on the line in College Football so the Odds of some dude on a football board coming up with a loophole giving any school a distinct advantage to getting that money is pretty naive. That's kind of reality dude.
Posted by tigermike5
Member since Mar 2006
1277 posts
Posted on 12/18/18 at 2:52 pm to
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Like this makes absolutely no sense. What on earth would a team gain from doing this? As soon as one of these guys practiced with the football team, they would count against football. In the first year they would count against the 25 signees and 85 total. In the second year they would only count against the 85. Your example doesn't work.


Well it’s the bear Bryant rule, he did exactly this in the 60s/70s. He took the baseball schollies and gave them for football. That’s is the problem with your logic, the reason a team would do this is there was more room on the 25/85, if their is space they sign football. If not it prevent a school like oh st or Michigan with bad baseball programs to give those schollies to mid tier 4 stars that don’t have room. The 2 year ban makes it not worth teams to do this.
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