Baseball question

40 to 34 according to the goggle.

Ok so they already did it. Just trying to see who was redshirted etc.

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I don’t remember what the roster limit changes were. What number were they at in fall and what do they have to get down to?

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They carried 39 in the fall. Jay wanted 42, the administration at the time said he could carry 40.

They are at 38 right now with onte of the pitchers who transferred in leaving the team to most likely medically retire from baseball.

The NCAA's soft limit right now is 34. The anticipation is that it will become a hard limit at some point, but it's not a hard limit currently because the NCAA is allowing what they call Designated Student Athletes.

DSAs are guys that were or would have been cut from the team to comply with the 34 man limit and is handled on a good faith basis with the NCAA. So each school was allowed to decide how far above the 34 they were comfortable with (as referenced at the beginning of my post).

There were rumors that a Big 12 school DSA'd every guy on their roster so that they could carry like 56 players. LSU (and other SEC peers) were more conservative.

DSAs had to be on last year's roster (recruited to the school before April of 2025) and the names had to be turned into the NCAA in July. So there is a finite amount of time the DSA thing can be used unless they kick the can down the road. The roster limit rules have changed so many times in the last several years that it's tough to anticipate that anything we know now will be the same next year.

In my reading of the NCAA handbook for 2025-2026, I can't find anything that says there is a hard cap on the roster for 2026. From what I can tell every player on the roster is eligible to participate if they are categorized correctly (DSA where applicable). My interpretation could be wrong though.

everything with regards to the DSA is accurate and that number will eventually get to the 34 over time

keep in mind that they also no longer have the 11.7 rule for allocating scholarships

all 34 will be on scholarship