Oversigning, cost-of-living expenses for scholarships topics at SEC spring meetings

The meetings will continue through Friday. On that day, the SEC is expected to announce it will distribute another record in revenue among the membership. Last spring, the league shared $209 million, the highest total in the conference's history and a 57.7 percent increase from the previous year. It was the first year that contracts signed with ESPN and CBS were included in the league revenues. This year's expected revenue-sharing record will mark the 21st straight year the league has had an increase.

Oversigning has been discussed and addressed at past SEC spring meetings. The Athens Banner-Herald reported recently that the league is expected to limit schools to signing no more than 25 football prospects to grants-in-aid in a single signing class. That would be three fewer than the current number allowed by the league.

Last month, commissioner Mike Slive said the SEC would take "a very comprehensive look" at oversigning during the spring meetings and that he expected the league to adopt legislation that would represent a change in the current policy. The 2009 rule adopted by the league limiting the number of signees to 28 per class applies only to recruits signed between signing day in early February and May 31, but does not include those who enroll at a school in January and wait until June to sign.

That loophole has allowed schools to go beyond the limit of 28 without penalty. It allowed South Carolina to sign 32 players in its 2011 signing class, with Arkansas signing 30.