NCAA Roster Limits and Power 5

[Anonymous]

Will the roster limits I’ve seen published only apply to the Power 5? From what I understand the Power 5 can offer unlimited scholarships up to the roster limit. How will this impact conferences outside the Power 5?

I’d love a quick summary if anyone is in the know.

[Anonymous]

Power 5? There is no such thing. Who would they be? There are four. That makes the rest of your question read not that smart.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Power 5? There is no such thing. Who would they be? There are four. That makes the rest of your question read not that smart.

Usually when someone asks a question it’s because they don’t know the answer and may not know all the important bits of information. Most things I read and hear refer to a Power 5 in the NCAA. Maybe it’s not an official designation, but it is a thing many people following college sports would understand.

[Anonymous]

NP
Recent conference restructurings have effectively done away with one of the P5 conferences, with the members joining the other four conferences.

The new rules are brand new and apply to NCAA D1 as a whole, no guidance for how individual conferences will handle things yet.

[Anonymous]

OP here. Thank you for answering the question and providing additional info.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thank you for answering the question and providing additional info.

I’m sorry that your genuine question was met with an insulting answer! I think expecting people to keep track of every detail is a lot, especially considering how new it is and how much there is to be determined in terms of how both the new roster sizes and increased scholarship limits will be executed. Eventually I think it will be a good thing, but there will be some rough impacts on 2025s especially.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Will the roster limits I’ve seen published only apply to the Power 5? From what I understand the Power 5 can offer unlimited scholarships up to the roster limit. How will this impact conferences outside the Power 5?

I’d love a quick summary if anyone is in the know.

All D1 schools will be impacted. Power 4 are rich enough and want to win enough that they will fully fund the scholarships. It’s great for football (which will get an additional 20 roster slots) but will reduce rosters for baseball and other sports (although now 34 players will get full scholarships up from divvying up the dollar equivalent of 11.7 scholarships).

Ivy and Patriot League that don’t give scholarships won’t be affected much.

It’s all the other D1 divisions that will struggle. There will be schools within the conference that can afford it and schools that can’t. My understanding is you can’t make individual school decisions at odds with the conference.

At least two baseball teams just announced they are halting 2025 and 2026 recruiting (this is a coach that tweets a lot that seems to know…but didn’t name the programs) until there is more clarity on this issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Will the roster limits I’ve seen published only apply to the Power 5? From what I understand the Power 5 can offer unlimited scholarships up to the roster limit. How will this impact conferences outside the Power 5?

I’d love a quick summary if anyone is in the know.

All D1 schools will be impacted. Power 4 are rich enough and want to win enough that they will fully fund the scholarships. It’s great for football (which will get an additional 20 roster slots) but will reduce rosters for baseball and other sports (although now 34 players will get full scholarships up from divvying up the dollar equivalent of 11.7 scholarships).

Ivy and Patriot League that don’t give scholarships won’t be affected much.

It’s all the other D1 divisions that will struggle. There will be schools within the conference that can afford it and schools that can’t. My understanding is you can’t make individual school decisions at odds with the conference.

At least two baseball teams just announced they are halting 2025 and 2026 recruiting (this is a coach that tweets a lot that seems to know…but didn’t name the programs) until there is more clarity on this issue.

Using baseball as an example, if a school in the Power4 now has 34 spots they can offer scholarships for, do they have to offer a full scholarship to all 34? Or can they decided some will get full scholarships while others will get partial? But either way they can’t have more than 34 athletes rostered?

For schools in other conferences, are you saying as a whole conferences will need to decide if they are following the new rule or not? If the conference is following then all schools must follow it? If a conference decides they are not following the new rule will they stick with current policy?

Sorry, these may be questions that don’t have answers yet, but this is pretty fascinating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Will the roster limits I’ve seen published only apply to the Power 5? From what I understand the Power 5 can offer unlimited scholarships up to the roster limit. How will this impact conferences outside the Power 5?

I’d love a quick summary if anyone is in the know.

All D1 schools will be impacted. Power 4 are rich enough and want to win enough that they will fully fund the scholarships. It’s great for football (which will get an additional 20 roster slots) but will reduce rosters for baseball and other sports (although now 34 players will get full scholarships up from divvying up the dollar equivalent of 11.7 scholarships).

Ivy and Patriot League that don’t give scholarships won’t be affected much.

It’s all the other D1 divisions that will struggle. There will be schools within the conference that can afford it and schools that can’t. My understanding is you can’t make individual school decisions at odds with the conference.

At least two baseball teams just announced they are halting 2025 and 2026 recruiting (this is a coach that tweets a lot that seems to know…but didn’t name the programs) until there is more clarity on this issue.

Using baseball as an example, if a school in the Power4 now has 34 spots they can offer scholarships for, do they have to offer a full scholarship to all 34? Or can they decided some will get full scholarships while others will get partial? But either way they can’t have more than 34 athletes rostered?

For schools in other conferences, are you saying as a whole conferences will need to decide if they are following the new rule or not? If the conference is following then all schools must follow it? If a conference decides they are not following the new rule will they stick with current policy?

Sorry, these may be questions that don’t have answers yet, but this is pretty fascinating.

Answer is unclear on the above…except roster sizes will be firm. So, yes all D1 teams will be restricted to 34. How scholarships will work is TBD.

Safe to say all Power 4 schools will offer as much money as they can to as many athletes as they can. Likely the conference will have rules all participating members will have to follow. I believe this is how all conferences will approach this.

On top of all this, they can now pay athletes a salary…which again all Power 4 schools will do because they have the money.

The baseball roster sizes will also apply to the Fall. D1 teams often have 45+ kids on Fall rosters and then figure out which make the current 40 roster. They will now be limited to 34 in the Fall, so effectively they are cutting 10+ roster spots.

Roster size rules will apply to all D1 teams…other aspects of the changes the conferences will have to agree as members. Power 4 won’t be an issue but the other conferences will be a mess because there will be richer and poorer schools within those conferences.

Final side note…supposedly booster clubs making NIL payments will be banned…you have to secure “real” NIL deals. That rule seems easy to bypass.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Will the roster limits I’ve seen published only apply to the Power 5? From what I understand the Power 5 can offer unlimited scholarships up to the roster limit. How will this impact conferences outside the Power 5?

I’d love a quick summary if anyone is in the know.

All D1 schools will be impacted. Power 4 are rich enough and want to win enough that they will fully fund the scholarships. It’s great for football (which will get an additional 20 roster slots) but will reduce rosters for baseball and other sports (although now 34 players will get full scholarships up from divvying up the dollar equivalent of 11.7 scholarships).

Ivy and Patriot League that don’t give scholarships won’t be affected much.

It’s all the other D1 divisions that will struggle. There will be schools within the conference that can afford it and schools that can’t. My understanding is you can’t make individual school decisions at odds with the conference.

At least two baseball teams just announced they are halting 2025 and 2026 recruiting (this is a coach that tweets a lot that seems to know…but didn’t name the programs) until there is more clarity on this issue.

Using baseball as an example, if a school in the Power4 now has 34 spots they can offer scholarships for, do they have to offer a full scholarship to all 34? Or can they decided some will get full scholarships while others will get partial? But either way they can’t have more than 34 athletes rostered?

For schools in other conferences, are you saying as a whole conferences will need to decide if they are following the new rule or not? If the conference is following then all schools must follow it? If a conference decides they are not following the new rule will they stick with current policy?

Sorry, these may be questions that don’t have answers yet, but this is pretty fascinating.

Answer is unclear on the above…except roster sizes will be firm. So, yes all D1 teams will be restricted to 34. How scholarships will work is TBD.

Safe to say all Power 4 schools will offer as much money as they can to as many athletes as they can. Likely the conference will have rules all participating members will have to follow. I believe this is how all conferences will approach this.

On top of all this, they can now pay athletes a salary…which again all Power 4 schools will do because they have the money.

The baseball roster sizes will also apply to the Fall. D1 teams often have 45+ kids on Fall rosters and then figure out which make the current 40 roster. They will now be limited to 34 in the Fall, so effectively they are cutting 10+ roster spots.

Roster size rules will apply to all D1 teams…other aspects of the changes the conferences will have to agree as members. Power 4 won’t be an issue but the other conferences will be a mess because there will be richer and poorer schools within those conferences.

Final side note…supposedly booster clubs making NIL payments will be banned…you have to secure “real” NIL deals. That rule seems easy to bypass.

Thanks for this info.

[Anonymous]

This is nuts that they will increase the amount of scholarships for non revenue sports . Then mid majors will probably cut these sports

[Anonymous]

I thought the real driver now was NIL.

A softball player got $1 million to transfer from Stanford to Texas Tech.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought the real driver now was NIL.

A softball player got $1 million to transfer from Stanford to Texas Tech.

It is right now…Bronny James had a $5.5MM deal. The Manning QB at Texas I think has a $5MM+ deal.

Others like the LSU gymnast have $3MM+ deals from massive social media followings they bring to the table even if their sport is not a revenue sport.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Will the roster limits I’ve seen published only apply to the Power 5? From what I understand the Power 5 can offer unlimited scholarships up to the roster limit. How will this impact conferences outside the Power 5?

I’d love a quick summary if anyone is in the know.

Can you link to an article or something

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Will the roster limits I’ve seen published only apply to the Power 5? From what I understand the Power 5 can offer unlimited scholarships up to the roster limit. How will this impact conferences outside the Power 5?

I’d love a quick summary if anyone is in the know.

Can you link to an article or something

Lots of info in this article. https://clemsonwire.usatoday.com/2024/07/27/ncaa-settlement-filed-to-expand-scholarships-and-pay-players/