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Originally Posted by itownbuckeye
Not really sure what you're getting at with regards to football recruiting. As far as I know there is no difference between oversigning in basketball or football. You can sign more players than you have scholarships available but you must be down to the alotted number by the time those scholarships take effect. Players do not count against the number at the time the letter is signed. For instance most of this years basketball class will sign their letters in the fall of '09 but they will not count against the limit until they enroll and begin receiving aid. Matta could sign an extra player or two as long as there is an open spot for them by Fall of 2010.
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I was referring to the fact that I think guys like grad and wadc know quite a bit about how coaches work scholarship limits when it comes to recruiting than any of us. At least, I thought so until you replied.
I guess my question to you is that I know that they can over sign guys in the early signing period but what would happen if the player that was supposed to leave at the end of the season did not and so you might have a guys signed to a LOI with no available scholarship. I guess the coach better be pretty damn sure he will have an available scholarship at the end of the season if in fact he does over sign. I guess another scenario that might come up let's say that Turner tells Matta then he is going to go professional at the end of the season but during the season suffers an injury that sidelines him for the majority of the season and thus is draft stock might drop dramatically and he might want to stay another year. There would go that one open scholarship that was going to be available. What happens then
I think it is much easier to over sign in football then in basketball just because of the number of scholarships. There is a big difference between 85 and 13.