15.5.6.3.2 Recruited Student-Athlete Entering After Fall Term, Aided in First Year. [FBS/FCS] A
student-athlete recruited (per Bylaw 15.02.8 [just means he was "recruited" via visits, contact, etc...]) by the awarding institution [UM] who enters after the first term [Fall] of the academic year [the "first term of the academic year," at UM, is the Fall term, so entering "after" the Fall term means entering in the Spring term, which usually makes you an early enrollee] and immediately receives institutional financial aid (based in any degree on athletics ability) [gets a scholarship] shall be an initial counter for either the current academic year [i.e., in this case, Fall 2019- Spring 2020] (if the institution’s annual limit has not been reached [i.e., there is still space in that class's 25 IC limit]) or the next academic year [i.e., Fall 2020- Spring 2021]. The student-athlete shall be included in the institution’s total counter limit during the academic year in which the aid was first received. (Revised: 1/15/11 effective 8/1/11)
Last sentence basically is a count forward. This is why you can’t just live by a single bylaw. There’s thousands of them.