Does the 25 cap limit only effect the sec schools?

You can back count to the previous class if you didn't use your allotment and you have EEs to fill them. Don't know where the hard cap came from because it still works like it has for years. LSU can't because they used up all of their allotment with the transfers and the fact that the new rules count players that wouldn't have counted before, like Seth Stewart. Don't have a clue about Miami's situation, but it is very possible.

It isn’t any more of a “hard cap” than it was previously. It’s a “hard cap” of 25 per academic year, but you can count back to the previous academic year just like you always could.

Feel free to quote the bylaw that states differently.

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Does the 25 cap limit only effect the sec schools?

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What do you think this is, Russia?

Here is a link to where I posted the actual rules from the manual. The bold text is what matters. Further down is a link to the manual:

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The 25 limit applies to the academic year (e.g. 17-18, 18-19, etc). If we were to sign only 24 in 17-18, in 18-19 we would be able to sign 26 if we had an EE that we could apply to 17-18, thus giving 25 in each academic year.

Understood. Thanks for linking, that was informative.

I guess I was just thinking of LSU's class this year.

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What happens when a player leaves the program such as Mouton transferring or Keys or Guice leaving early for the NFL?

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That is just part of the attrition. You do not get more signing spots because of it. You can have 85 active scholarship players on a roster. Most schools are at a slightly less number so they can award deserving walk ons a scholarship too. In four years you can sign 100 athletes, and since some portion of each class will be here for 5 years, that's even more spots.

Historically, some "processing" was required in order to sign full class. The attrition just makes that a little less brutal. Now under the new rules, we will sign fewer players over time because more players count. It is true that if you consistently go nuts on grad transfers, JC transfers, have a lot of your own transferring out of the program and have a lot of early NFL defectors, then you find yourself below the 85 pretty quickly. But if you stop the grad and JC transfers, you should be able to get healthy pretty quickly.

Not saying what we did is going to get us in trouble at all. But if you do it year after year it will catch up on you.