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>>Football Bowl Subdivision schools are limited to signing 25 prospective and current student-athletes to a first-time financial aid agreement or a National Letter of Intent. Exceptions exclude current student-athletes who have been enrolled full-time at the school for at least two years and prospective or current student-athletes who suffer an incapacitating injury (effective for recruits who sign after Aug. 1, 2017).

There's already a limit of 25 scholarship new entrants (and 85 total scholarships), which Stanford never has run up against (even though we have uneven classes, we have less attrition than most schools and tend to redshirt a larger proportion of players).  What this protects against is oversigning, which runs rampant in the SEC.  Schools will accept more than 25 letters of intent, even though only 25 players can be on scholarship, expecting some players to not make it academically or grayshirt, etc.  I think this doesn't impact Stanford, but will have a slight negative impact on some of our competition, though oversigning is not as big of a deal in the Pac-12.

BC

[BostonCard]

>>Football Bowl Subdivision schools are limited to signing 25 prospective and current student-athletes to a first-time financial aid agreement or a National Letter of Intent. Exceptions exclude current student-athletes who have been enrolled full-time at the school for at least two years and prospective or current student-athletes who suffer an incapacitating injury (effective for recruits who sign after Aug. 1, 2017).

There's already a limit of 25 scholarship new entrants (and 85 total scholarships), which Stanford never has run up against (even though we have uneven classes, we have less attrition than most schools and tend to redshirt a larger proportion of players).  What this protects against is oversigning, which runs rampant in the SEC.  Schools will accept more than 25 letters of intent, even though only 25 players can be on scholarship, expecting some players to not make it academically or grayshirt, etc.  I think this doesn't impact Stanford, but will have a slight negative impact on some of our competition, though oversigning is not as big of a deal in the Pac-12.

BC