In today’s WSJ it is revealed that the SEC Conference is planning to discuss the oversigning issue at their meetings next week in Destin, Fla. At the heart of the planned talk is the possiblity of a proposal that would limit schools to 25 signees each academic year, down from 28.
The Athens Banner-Herald also has learned that some other details to the “roster management” issue that includes:
► Making football signees who attend summer school on athletic aid before the fall semester count against a school’s scholarship numbers for that next academic year. There currently are no limits on how many can attend summer school, which can leave a recruit already on campus to be asked to delay enrollment until January if there’s no room. The proposal would go into effect in summer 2012.
► Giving the SEC office more oversight in medical scholarship exemptions to review and determine outcome for cases. A team doctor, trainer and athletic director would need to sign off on each case.
► Keeping early enrollees from signing an SEC financial aid agreement until they are enrolled and attend class at the school. Currently, recruits can begin to sign a financial aid agreement after their junior year of high school, which keeps other SEC schools from recruiting them.
SEC commissioner Mike Slive told the Birmingham News last week that roster management issues take into consideration oversigning, early admission, grayshirting, medical exemptions and summer enrollment.
Lastly, here is Jon Soloman with a good article on the specifics of the oversigning proposal.
LOHD spin:
Make the rules clear and enforce for all. Create no grey areas so no schools stretch the rules. If an environment is created so all are on a equal playing field in terms of recruiting then so be it. Hopefully this is the first step to ending the oversigning issue.
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