Jim Case needs to Retire

We don’t get RichRod without the move to FBS. Going to a “real” D1 conference should help widen our search.

Most people probably can’t beyond their favorite school. But I would imagine Seitz would know where to look.

The roster limit in D1 is 40, with 27 being allowed to receive scholarships. Scholarships must be at least 25% cost of attendance with schools having 11.7 to offer. I think the numbers were temporarily raised due to covid.

I am not sure if the rules have changed, but typically an athlete on academic or other scholarship counts against athletic scholarship numbers. The hope scholarship would fall into that category - unless the student graduated in the top 10% of his class, scored 1200+ on the SAT, or graduated with a 3.5 or higher in high school. If they meet that qualification, the Hope scholarship would probably be exempted. If not, they would count against scholarship numbers.

I am not delusional. I don't expect us to win every game... an occasional 40 win season is normal for a good program, and < .600 is a bad year. We are in the same conference as Liberty, a top 20 team. With La Tech being 37 rpi and numerous other teams above us in CUSA, we will be fighting for 4th or 5th place if nothing changes.

Interesting... the way I read it, scholarshipped athletes can receive the hope scholarship to cover additional cost of attendance, but they are already counting against the total number of scholarships available. That means that the university could bump someone elses' scholarship to a higher amount. In the case of baseball, 25% is the minimum allowed. The article says scholarships can be 1%, but the actual NCAA rule is 25% minimum for baseball. It doesn't affect the total number of athletes allowed - still 27, no matter how you slice it. Unless the rules have changed - and I doubt they have, a recruited player cannot be on a non-athletic scholarship without counting against the total number of athletes on scholarship. Imagine what football would be like if it could be that way. Universities would be creating bogus scholarships to put athletes on in order to have more than the limited number of players on scholarship. We could have the "Gamecock crowing scholarship" and award a scholarship to the 30 best rooster crows. The fact that 29 of them were walk-ons on the football team would obviously be just a coincidence that follows someone being able to crow also obviously being someone who wants to play football for a team called the Gamecocks.

To add... even if the University can drop the scholarship amount to a lower amount for hope recipients, they can't add more than 27 players on any scholarship without counting against their scholarship limit. At the end of the day they will end up pocketing the unspent money but not adding more players.

Feeling the heat from a message board thread with five posters commenting, the team pulls off a weekend sweep.


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Alabama could just get the lottery.

Remember, we elected a governor who ran on that as his entire platform only to vote it down when it came to a ballot…irony was the SBC accepting a multimillion dollar donation from the Mississippi band of Choctaw Indians to fund the anti-lottery ad campaign. I lived in Columbus Mississippi at the time and the news there had a field day with it.