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Reverend Dabo Swinney (HC Clemson Tigers - GSCS), random mid-century cars, and steroids

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buckeyemania11 said:
Not shocking but more crying from Dabo about changes

www.espn.com

Dabo: Proposed roster changes 'so frustrating'

Clemson football coach Dabo Swinney says proposed changes to scholarship numbers and roster sizes could spell doom for walk-on players.
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I don't get it. Schools go from having 85 scholarships football players to having 105 student-athletes on scholarship. Twenty student-athletes that would have been a walk on are now on full scholarship. That sounds like a good thing to me; and I'm sure that those 20 kids and their parents would agree that it is a good thing too.

I do agree when the 105 limit goes into effect, the walk-ons on the team that year that would put the team over the 105 limit should be "grandfathered" in (i.e. the limit of 105 could be exceeded to accommodate them).
 
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ScriptOhio said:
I don't get it. Schools go from having 85 scholarships football players to having 105 student-athletes on scholarship. Twenty student-athletes that would have been a walk on are now on full scholarship. That sounds like a good thing to me; and I'm sure that those 20 kids and their parents would agree that it is a good thing too.

I do agree when the 105 limit goes into effect, the walk-ons on the team that year that would put the team over the 105 limit should be "grandfathered" in (i.e. the limit of 105 could be exceeded to accommodate them).
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Dabo is college football's "old man yells at cloud"
 
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Zurp said:
These are the players on our roster who will play for us....
....and these are the players we keep around so they won't play for UC or Indiana or Akron or Marshall.
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With the length of a playoff season, the blue bloods do need more scholarships

Everyone else gets more too, so that amounts to over 2600 more kids on football scholarships. And with Title IX, that means 2600+ more athletic scholarships for women too
 
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DaddyBigBucks said:
With the length of a playoff season, the blue bloods do need more scholarships

Everyone else gets more too, so that amounts to over 2600 more kids on football scholarships. And with Title IX, that means 2600+ more athletic scholarships for women too
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Agreed.
Let me clarify that I do believe that all of the top-tier teams will have players on their rosters that they won't ever play. More players will be in this category than they already do. Maybe they'll pan out, but many will not. And these are players who would normally go to Akron or BG or WMU or the like. So this will create a bigger difference between the top dogs and the rest. And I was joking that the intent to those scholarships was to keep them off the smaller teams' rosters. I don't think Ryan Day or any other coach is going to give anyone a free ride.
But, I do support it, as more scholarships is a good thing for the athletes. I don't know that I agree that the blue bloods "need" more scholarships. But you and others probably know more than I do, so I won't argue it.
 
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