At the P5 level, scholarships are now guaranteed for 4 years

Jan 18, 2018
7:49:41am

Everyman All-American

and cannot be rescinded for performance or because someone better had come along. The new measure applies to those who signed the LOI beginning in 2015.

Few, if any of the G5 have adopted the measure.

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Major rule change: BB and FB transfers can play immediately?

Division Bell

1/17/18 9:09pm

If true I think this hurts BYU. Athletes with HC issues

Oompabluepaw

1/17/18 9:13pm

Yup

Iman23

1/17/18 9:18pm

I think they would still have to sit out the current season.

ChinaFan

1/17/18 10:15pm

Very likely

FatherOFive

1/18/18 8:08am

Which is more fair in my opinion.

dYrtbYkerYder

1/18/18 6:29am

I'm not sure though...

MAcc15Coug

1/18/18 9:11am

Not yet but perhaps by the start of the next school year.

Everyman

1/17/18 9:15pm

I wouldn't mind something in the middle, like

Lip Gallagher

1/17/18 9:19pm

Bad news for non-elite schools

mudpupper

1/17/18 9:25pm

And all the 5 stars not playing at Bama can leave. It is a net positive.

Baron

1/17/18 9:29pm

They went to schools like Alabama for a reason. They'll stick around.

mudpupper

1/17/18 9:34pm

Think of how many of those Jr/Sr players could immediately upgrade a G5 team? A QB, a WR defect together?

ChinaFan

1/18/18 1:02am

why, schools like Alabama would also lose players to G5s if they can't get PT as promised.

ChinaFan

1/18/18 1:01am

So, recruiting of a player will never end, even when at another school?

NewMexiCoug

1/17/18 9:51pm

Basically lower tier schools would become farm systems for the big schools.

jaredm

1/17/18 9:59pm

That will be one stipluation to the rule I am sure, there cannot be any contact by a school related to a player under

ChinaFan

1/18/18 1:05am

Yeah, I would think so. However, coaches would be on the continual lookout for

NewMexiCoug

1/18/18 6:20am

I think it's overstated. It can all be managed by degree programs, scholastic advancement, lots of factors. The

ChinaFan

1/19/18 12:57am

If the current system is amateurism and not professionalism, then allowing more

cwilke1

1/17/18 11:18pm

At the P5 level, scholarships are now guaranteed for 4 years

Everyman

1/18/18 7:49am

so it looks like BYU takes the G5 approach on this one

cwilke1

1/18/18 8:21am

Utah could really expand their crime spree recruiting Eastward too

Y4LYFE

1/18/18 12:25am

BYU becomes a feeder school for Utah.

DoseOfReality

1/18/18 10:53am

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