I Still do not understand recruiting numbers

If you do not lose 7 to portal, you will have to proses players to get the full 32.

But the 32 can come from HS,JUCO or Portal, it does not matter.

This recruiting class is 25 plus (up to) 7. That’s a total of up to 32, which can be incoming freshmen, JUCO, or transfers in any combination the school prefers.

There are two things going on:

This year, you have the temporary waiver that allows schools to sign up to 7 additional players to replace transfers. If you want to understand that waiver, check the signing limit waiver sticky.

On top of that, there are several exceptions/loopholes that exist during normal years. The most notable ones are:

- An early enrollees can count against either the current academic year or the next year. So if LSU recruits an EE who enrolls in January 2022, they can either count against the 2021 signing limit or the 2022 signing limit. That means that if a team only takes 22 one year, they can take 28 the following year by “back counting” 3 early enrollees.

- A player’s financial aid can be delayed until after the fall semester. This usually means they enroll part-time (paying their own way) or they take classes at a community college in the fall. The player can’t play or practice during that fall semester. It’s not exactly a great practice and usually happens to a lesser player when a school oversigns. Commonly known as “greyshirting,” this allows the school to count the player against the following year’s signing limit. Example: LSU has 26 commits against a hard cap of 25 for the 2022 signing class. One player is asked to greyshirt, so they enroll in the spring and count against the 2023 signing class instead.

I think most of the time when you see a team with 28 signees, it’s because they are back counting scholarships. This can go on for multiple years. Say a school has the following number if signees each year:
2017: 23
2018: 24
2019: 25
2020: 27
2021: 26

If you just looked at the 2019-2021 classes you would go “what the hell??” But in reality the classes look like this:
2017: 25 (23 + 2 2018 EE’s)
2018: 25 (22 + 3 2019 EE’s)
2019: 25 (22 + 3 2020 EE’s)
2020: 25 (24 + 1 2021 EE)
2021: 25

You just need enough early enrollees each year to keep maxing out the previous year’s signing limit.

Its ok buddy

Well how bout this, I will tell LSU and Brian kelly to sign 32 recruits this 2022 season. Will that make y9u sit down and be happy. Understand that one. If you worry bout whatever everyone else is doing, how will lsu ever fix whatever problems, issues they need to fix. Comprende ?

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I don’t understand how Bama and now A&M can over sign but nobody else can. I understand you can back count if you under sign, but Bama never under signs.

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Prove it. Go ahead , you raised the allegation so tell us why. You are not original, but like every one before you still wrong. All schools have the same rules whether its Alabama, LSU, Syracuse, Clemson, Iowa State or whomever. Its absurd this keeps coming up.