A rule was proposed at the SEC meetings limiting the amount of athletes you can sign to a letter-of-intent. This was a reaction to the practice of some schools over signing players,as with Ole Miss and coach Houston Nutt, who signed 37 players for 25 spots last signing day.
The rule has been finalized, and the SEC will now only allow teams to sign 28 athletes to letters-of-intent. Athletic Directors and coaches were pushing for the cap to be 30, giving them a bit more padding for academic casualties, but university brass pushed the number down to 28.
The SEC will sponsor similar legislation to make 28 scholarships the limit throughout Division I-A football.
This will transform the SEC, and if anything, will transform the national championship won in recruiting by some teams that sign players knowing that there's no chance of the recruit ever walking on campus. The SEC Rocks!
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