Can NIL monies be used to circumvent the 85 scholarship limit?

You have to give the entire value of a full ride + actual money to the player. Nobody is going to spend that kind of cash on the 86th player on your roster.

Ole Miss’ kicker Caden Davis is on a “full NIL scholarship”, while the backup Caden Costa has the 4 yr actual scholarship.

You have to give the entire value of a full ride + actual money to the player. Nobody is going to spend that kind of cash on the 86th player on your roster.

How about Texas AM? Paying X coaches and players is their thing. Smart supporters over there ??.

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could a team stockpile talent well in excess of the 85 scholarship limit?

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Can you? Sure. But eventually, players, with the possible exception of kickers and long snappers, will figure out that if they are not on scholarship they are looked at as rotational or even practice pieces and can expect little playing time.

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Contracts?

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Not permitted under what are supposed to be the current rules, though I am not sure what exactly the NCAA is actually doing or enforcing.

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Income taxes?

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NIL money is taxable income.

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Geaux Tigers

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Can NIL monies be used to circumvent the 85 scholarship limit?

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I thought I read that this is what we did with baseball

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this would all boil down to technicalities and how NIL rules are interpreted.

football is a "counter" sport and Baseball is not.

meaning if a student athlete receives ANY financial aid at all from the school, then he counts against the scholarship limit for his sport.
meaning even if a math nerd with a full ride academic scholarship wants to walk on to the football team, NCAA rules require he is counted against your 85 man limit.

this rule is to prevent teams from using other scholarships (or programs like TOPs, etc.) to circumvent the 85 limit.


Baseball is considered a "non-counter" sport.
and you can supplement their scholarship (or lack of scholarship) with other financial aid.
in years past, LSU would use programs like TOPs to help with in state kids.

that's why these small private schools can compete better in Baseball than they can in football.

Vanderbilt for example has a program (available to all students) where if you qualify to get into Vandy, but don't have the means to pay their full tuition, they will work out a reduced price based on "what you can afford".
That reduction in tuition is considered financial aid, so would count against the 85 scholarship limit in football.
But it does not count against the 11.7 in baseball.

So Vanderbilt can offer that "Aid" to baseball recruits. Theoretically they could have their entire Baseball roster paying virtually nothing to attend Vanderbilt.

State run schools like LSU on the other hand are limited to their 11.7 plus any academic scholarships the players themselves earn.

They already are. Texas OL get 100k per year just for being a Texas OL. That's not including any other NIL agreements that player may have worked out.
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