So MSU Can Play @ UGA Tomorrow with 54 Players But CFB Needs 85 Man Rosters?

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Originally Posted by ShotgunDawg

Agree. Was just making a point that anything is better than the current system

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Shotgun, I TOTALLY support your opinion. College football right now, as a whole is a terrible product. By far the worst of any major sport out there. Yes, there are a lot of great individual games out there from week to week but overall the sport is just not competitive. You've got ONLY the same elite programs every year that can win a championship (roughly 6 to 8 of them) and only maybe about 15-18 programs that have any chance to make a 4 team playoff. The Bama game today was unwatchable, unless you are a huge Bama fan, like all but about 3 or 4 of their games all year. Whatever movement can be formed to promote the reduction of scholarships per program I will gladly join and support. There has to be some way to spread out some of the elite talent a little more each year to close the talent gap a bit between the few haves and the rest of everyone else who are essentially the have nots.

SMH

What the hell are we doing? This is a real sport in 2020. Can you believe it?

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Originally Posted by ShotgunDawg

SMH

What the hell are we doing? This is a real sport in 2020. Can you believe it?

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Yeah it is a joke. NFL can play with 53 but college needs 85? Something needs to be done just like when they put scholarship limits. Cut them back and bring some parity to college football.

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Originally Posted by R2Dawg

Yeah it is a joke. NFL can play with 53 but college needs 85? Something needs to be done just like when they put scholarship limits. Cut them back and bring some parity to college football.

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When scholarship limits were first imposed, was 85 the limit, or has it changed, either up or down, since then?

Basketball has a limit of 13, which is 2.6 the number that can be on the floor at one time. Baseball can barely field a 9-man team with scholarship players (were they able to give full scholarships). But football has almost 8 times the number on the field at once, or 4 times the number if you consider offense and defense to be different teams (so to speak).

If the number was cut to that of basketball, then the limitation would be 2.6 x 22, or 57.2. Maybe that's the magic number for football. It's a contact sport, but so is basketball nowadays.

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Originally Posted by RocketDawg

When scholarship limits were first imposed, was 85 the limit, or has it changed, either up or down, since then?

Basketball has a limit of 13, which is 2.6 the number that can be on the floor at one time. Baseball can barely field a 9-man team with scholarship players (were they able to give full scholarships). But football has almost 8 times the number on the field at once, or 4 times the number if you consider offense and defense to be different teams (so to speak).

If the number was cut to that of basketball, then the limitation would be 2.6 x 22, or 57.2. Maybe that's the magic number for football. It's a contact sport, but so is basketball nowadays.

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I think you are on to something here.

But let?s round up to 3x
Basketball 3x 5=15 scholarships
Baseball 3x 9=27 scholarships
Football 3x 22=66 scholarships
W-Basketball-15
Softball-27
Soccer-33
Volleyball-12
Cheerleading/Dance-21

The money is in football.

I imagine, the scholarships won't change due to it helping so many under-privileged kids get a degree. Whether you agree with that or not.

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Originally Posted by SPMT

The money is in football.

I imagine, the scholarships won't change due to it helping so many under-privileged kids get a degree. Whether you agree with that or not.

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That is the political side of this. However, the sport would make more money with less scholarships which may open the door for players to be paid something

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Originally Posted by SPMT

The money is in football.

I imagine, the scholarships won't change due to it helping so many under-privileged kids get a degree. Whether you agree with that or not.

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There would be a lot more money in football if more schools could actually compete for something other than a nice bowl trip. Can you imagine how many more season tickets could be sold at a lot of the Power 5 schools if more schools had real hopes of competing for a NC. The money will be there anyway, no matter how many scholarships football gets, and most folks just want a more competitive product to follow so seems like it would be fine to just fund 10 to 15 more scholarships from the football profits to fund scholarships for underprivileged kids. It would be the same difference since we are basically saying that the extra glut of scholarships used on football is just a scholarship program anyway.

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Originally Posted by maroonmania

There would be a lot more money in football if more schools could actually compete for something other than a nice bowl trip. Can you imagine how many more season tickets could be sold at a lot of the Power 5 schools if more schools had real hopes of competing for a NC. The money will be there anyway, no matter how many scholarships football gets, and most folks just want a more competitive product to follow so seems like it would be fine to just fund 10 to 15 more scholarships from the football profits to fund scholarships for underprivileged kids. It would be the same difference since we are basically saying that the extra glut of scholarships used on football is just a scholarship program anyway.

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