‘Tis the season of recruiting news as national signing day is drawing closer. In between the bowl game coverage, no matter who you follow as your team, there is always things to talk about with recruiting. Check out this video explaining “oversigning.” Gives some perspective of why it happens and the affects it can have on a football program. Something to watch as South Carolina is already at 26 verbal commiments and counting with Clowney and Townsend (among others) still on the Gamecocks radar.
Oversigning, in simple terms, is the act of accepting more signed letters of intent on National Signing Day then you have room for under the 85 scholarship limit.
When oversigning is done by a school, the coaching staff has to depend on either the player signed to not be academically eligible or for a current player to be cut from a team in order to stay under the 85 scholarship limit and bring in the newly signed commitment.
Oversigning is not just signing more than 25 players in a single recruiting class; it is going over the 85 scholarship limit. For example, if you have 65 player returning on scholarship on National Signing Day and you sign 23, you have oversigned by 3 because 65+23 = 88. Therefore, even though you didn’t go over 25 in a single class, you have oversigned. Check out the video from ESPN for a better explaination.
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