one thing is pretty clear. Schools with endowments for football scholarships will be able to move specialists to PWO to free up 2-3 spots for 4-5* kids. Those PWO can get NIL deals to cover their spots thus taking the 85 count to 88. The remaining PWOs could be Burroughs types getting a team to...
In years past, it was always 85 enrolled with financial aid. Thus, summer A/B you have to plan ahead with portal dates now making sure you don’t sign too many or you will have to force someone out and hurt them because they are outside the window to play for the current year. That would be a bad...
The issue is the market makers (big money schools) aren’t going to wait around for kids. They want confidence in who is coming/not so they aren’t left with empty spots for spring. Now if a lot of kids held off, it could shift the market.
No way saban is only worth $60m. Makes $10m from Bama alone. Bet he makes another 10m from endorsements. Then you get to a good investment plan and he should be grossing $30m with lifetime earnings well over $100m.
85 in January, too.
If they are enrolled, they count. Generally, you can remove nfl declarations, transfers, Thus, we can have 20ish EEs/spring transfers unless we see more departures before January.
17 HS EEs would be a ton!
The issue is 85 spots. Schools would rather know before the last day of enrollment if a kid is coming so they can do roster management and get a spot open by pushing a kid to the portal.
Besides for Mincey, here are the remaining DBs that are unsigned and ranked in the top 1000. Some are 4star kids and the rest are 3.
https://247sports.com/player/trajen-greco-46138391/
https://247sports.com/player/jayden-lewis-46113564/
https://247sports.com/player/isaiah-rubin-46125720/...