Once the season is over I do a mass update of my Scholarship by Class chart to incorporate incoming Frosh and remove seniors.
https://sites.google.com/site/scholarshipbreakdown/home
Well.... this year that is interesting.
Without including any late signees, we are at 106 scholarship athletes - none of whom are obligated to leave. My understanding is that the NCAA will allow a higher number for 2021 but is looking at getting back to 85 in 2022.
Certainly we are going to lose some kids to the pros, both juniors and seniors. We will also have some transfers.
But at the moment we have 55 Freshmen. Those are classified as true Frosh (class of 2021), COVID Frosh (kids from the class of 2020 who may or may not have played this year) and Redshirt COVID Frosh (class of 2019 kids who Redshirted last year but will still be freshmen for a third consecutive year in 2021).
We have 20 defensive backs. Only one is a senior and he has already indicated he plans to return. Thirteen are freshmen.
We have 20 OL, 11 of whom are classified as Freshmen. Nine of our DL are Frosh.
This is not going to resolve itself by 2022.
In order to return to an 85 cap in two years the NCAA would have to dramatically reduce the number of incoming Frosh for 2022. This would not only create a challenge at the college level, it would be unfair to the HS kids graduating that year to a reduced number of available scholarships. Kids who have already had their lives turned upside down by COVID.
The issue is not the seniors who aren't leaving this season and who will be gone next year in any case. It is the combined 2020/2021 classes all of whom will have the eligibility of true Frosh beginning next season. For OSU that is 46 plus any late signees. The natural resolution of this will only happen over 4 or 5 years.
And OSU is arguably in a better situation than most schools as we have so many kids who leave after 3 years anyhow. For the Indianas and Wisconsins of the world it could get even trickier.
https://sites.google.com/site/scholarshipbreakdown/home
Well.... this year that is interesting.
Without including any late signees, we are at 106 scholarship athletes - none of whom are obligated to leave. My understanding is that the NCAA will allow a higher number for 2021 but is looking at getting back to 85 in 2022.
Certainly we are going to lose some kids to the pros, both juniors and seniors. We will also have some transfers.
But at the moment we have 55 Freshmen. Those are classified as true Frosh (class of 2021), COVID Frosh (kids from the class of 2020 who may or may not have played this year) and Redshirt COVID Frosh (class of 2019 kids who Redshirted last year but will still be freshmen for a third consecutive year in 2021).
We have 20 defensive backs. Only one is a senior and he has already indicated he plans to return. Thirteen are freshmen.
We have 20 OL, 11 of whom are classified as Freshmen. Nine of our DL are Frosh.
This is not going to resolve itself by 2022.
In order to return to an 85 cap in two years the NCAA would have to dramatically reduce the number of incoming Frosh for 2022. This would not only create a challenge at the college level, it would be unfair to the HS kids graduating that year to a reduced number of available scholarships. Kids who have already had their lives turned upside down by COVID.
The issue is not the seniors who aren't leaving this season and who will be gone next year in any case. It is the combined 2020/2021 classes all of whom will have the eligibility of true Frosh beginning next season. For OSU that is 46 plus any late signees. The natural resolution of this will only happen over 4 or 5 years.
And OSU is arguably in a better situation than most schools as we have so many kids who leave after 3 years anyhow. For the Indianas and Wisconsins of the world it could get even trickier.
Per usual, the NCAA acted before they thought
