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SEC presidents vote to reduce signing limit to 25; Nick Saban blows a gasket | CollegeFootballTalk
Despite the coaches’ opposing opines on the matter, all 12 SEC member presidents/chancellors have reportedly agreed to limit the number of players signed in each recruiting class to 25, according to various tweets from Cecil Hurt of tidesportsextra.com.
The conference currently legislates that members can sign as many as 28 players – although they can only hand out a NCAA-mandated 25 scholarships each signing class — between National Signing Day and May 31.
The proposed legislation by SEC commissioner Mike Slive was one of several items voted on during the final day of SEC league meetings in Destin, Florida. Slive’s legislation called for “Limiting the size of a football signing class in each academic year to 25, down from the current level of 28… The 25 limit would cover those who sign from Dec. 1 to August 1.”
“Slive: President’s vote to go to 25 limit was unanimous. Felt it ‘was fairest to prospects, while allowing flexibility,’” Hurt tweeted. “Slive: ‘No one wants to win more than I do, but we don’t want to win at the expense of our young people.’”
The new rule will still allow grayshirting, or the act of delaying the signing of a player until the following year, and the SEC Office will oversee medical scholarship exemptions. The SEC is also reportedly looking to get this new rule adopted as national legislation.
While the university presidents unanimously heralded the decision, Alabama coach Nick Saban has led a handful of SEC coaches who not only accept oversigning, but can’t for the life of them understand why anybody wouldn’t love it.
“You all are creating a bad problem for everybody. You’re going to mess up kids’ opportunities by doing what you’re doing. You think you’re helping ‘em but you’re really hurting ‘em. It took one case where somebody didn’t get the right opportunity. You need to take the other 100 cases where somebody got an opportunity,” Saban said Wednesday, referring to the media’s disdain *ahem* of oversigning.
Despite the coaches’ opposing opines on the matter, all 12 SEC member presidents/chancellors have reportedly agreed to limit the number of players signed in each recruiting class to 25, according to various tweets from Cecil Hurt of tidesportsextra.com.
The conference currently legislates that members can sign as many as 28 players – although they can only hand out a NCAA-mandated 25 scholarships each signing class — between National Signing Day and May 31.
The proposed legislation by SEC commissioner Mike Slive was one of several items voted on during the final day of SEC league meetings in Destin, Florida. Slive’s legislation called for “Limiting the size of a football signing class in each academic year to 25, down from the current level of 28… The 25 limit would cover those who sign from Dec. 1 to August 1.”
“Slive: President’s vote to go to 25 limit was unanimous. Felt it ‘was fairest to prospects, while allowing flexibility,’” Hurt tweeted. “Slive: ‘No one wants to win more than I do, but we don’t want to win at the expense of our young people.’”
The new rule will still allow grayshirting, or the act of delaying the signing of a player until the following year, and the SEC Office will oversee medical scholarship exemptions. The SEC is also reportedly looking to get this new rule adopted as national legislation.
While the university presidents unanimously heralded the decision, Alabama coach Nick Saban has led a handful of SEC coaches who not only accept oversigning, but can’t for the life of them understand why anybody wouldn’t love it.
“You all are creating a bad problem for everybody. You’re going to mess up kids’ opportunities by doing what you’re doing. You think you’re helping ‘em but you’re really hurting ‘em. It took one case where somebody didn’t get the right opportunity. You need to take the other 100 cases where somebody got an opportunity,” Saban said Wednesday, referring to the media’s disdain *ahem* of oversigning.
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