re: Down to 83 Scholarship Players

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but we need room to bring guys in

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do we, really?

If you find a transfer you like and he wants to come here, why can't an NIL collective just pick up his tuition and room and board? He still gets a free ride, and nobody goes over the scholarship limit. It's the same money, just a different term for it.

You know we're eventually going to see a "walk on" start games. It's happened in the past with baseball, when they had to split scholarships up. TOPS would cover some things, other guys had family money and chose to pay their own way to allow for a better team. Football will see that same dynamic play out- the top players will end up with big NIL deals and 'walk on', leaving scholarships to guys building depth.