I'm sure it's been discussed before, but I was doing some reading on ESPN and saw where an Arkansas wide reciever was released from his scholarship. Seemed pretty ironic that other players on Arkansas team have been caught for the SAME reason (possession of a controlled substance) and we're not released (their starting DT for example), so I'm guessing he was, in some way, the first casualty of being oversigned 10. ]
I've never been a big believer on how oversigning is THAT much of an example, but then I started reading more, and browsing over at Oversigning.Com, and it was just mindblowing.
Ohios State vs. Arkansas
The article above is the difference in recruiting numbers between Ohio State vs. Arkansas (made during the bowl's last season).
Over a 4-year period, Arkansas signed 20 more recruits than Ohio State. 20.
That's a full freaking signing class some years for Ohio State. Essentially, Arkansas another years worth of recruits over a 4-year period.
Schools go into a recruiting cycle pretty much knowing what they are looking for with regards to position break-down. Sure, you make exceptions for exceptional talent, but you have an idea. It's a HUGE freaking advantage to be able to say, recruit a James Aldridge at running back, a 5-star talent, and if he underpreforms, release him from his scholarship and give it to one of the 30 kids you signed in the last class.
How can the NCAA allow such a difference in rules between conferences such as the Big Ten (where they have to document to the conference EVERY signing over the limit of 85) and the SEC (where I think the limit is, what, 30 now per year), especially if they are competing for the same spots in the BCS?
I've never been a big believer on how oversigning is THAT much of an example, but then I started reading more, and browsing over at Oversigning.Com, and it was just mindblowing.
Ohios State vs. Arkansas
The article above is the difference in recruiting numbers between Ohio State vs. Arkansas (made during the bowl's last season).
Over a 4-year period, Arkansas signed 20 more recruits than Ohio State. 20.
That's a full freaking signing class some years for Ohio State. Essentially, Arkansas another years worth of recruits over a 4-year period.
Schools go into a recruiting cycle pretty much knowing what they are looking for with regards to position break-down. Sure, you make exceptions for exceptional talent, but you have an idea. It's a HUGE freaking advantage to be able to say, recruit a James Aldridge at running back, a 5-star talent, and if he underpreforms, release him from his scholarship and give it to one of the 30 kids you signed in the last class.
How can the NCAA allow such a difference in rules between conferences such as the Big Ten (where they have to document to the conference EVERY signing over the limit of 85) and the SEC (where I think the limit is, what, 30 now per year), especially if they are competing for the same spots in the BCS?
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