February 19, 2013 · 8:06 PM

The second biggest oversigner in the SEC is…

Vanderbilt, believe it or not.  And Virginia’s third nationally.

You’re freaking me out, guys.

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9 responses to “The second biggest oversigner in the SEC is…”

  1. Bright Idea
    February 19, 2013 at 10:14 PM

    If you don’t do it you end up shorthanded and “thud” practicing.

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  2. 202dawg
    February 19, 2013 at 10:20 PM

    Saban doesn’t have time for Matt Hinton’s shit…

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  3. adam
    February 19, 2013 at 11:09 PM

    Man. So recruits we lost to Bama late in the game (Foster, Kamara, Dee Liner) didnt even really have a spot. If we had been in the same circumstance numbers-wise we wouldn’t have even been recruiting them. We’re at ~83 scholarship players (before summer attrition). Bama is at 95. No wonder they’re so hard to compete with. Even if they don’t have room they make room for elite players AND they ensure that none of their rivals get these players. If Bama said “Sorry, we’re out of space”, maybe we finish with a few 5-star players. Instead, the Tide just keep loading up. The playing field isn’t level and the SEC or NCAA should do something about that. I don’t know what the solution is, but this just isn’t fair.

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    • Trey (@cpadawg)
      February 20, 2013 at 8:48 AM

      They could start by counting scholarships 365 days per year. If you lose a guy to discipline, transfer, grades, etc., you have a spot open, and you can sign another guy. At least this way, teams like Alabama would need to cull their rosters before they signed guys instead of culling once they see how many they need to get rid of.

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      • Always Someone Else's Fault
        February 20, 2013 at 9:28 PM

        The B1G does this, with the result that a lot of players get their pink slips in mid-December. That’s not a lot of time to land at another school when most academic calendars start back up the first or second week in January.

        The NCAA needs to waive transfer restrictions for kids who have their scholarship pulled, and it needs to make schools convert the athletic scholarship into an academic scholarship if the student-athlete in question is making satisfactory progress towards a degree when they get removed from the roster.

        Yes, that means Auburn could have picked up Crowell. So be it.

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  4. ScoutDawg
    February 20, 2013 at 1:20 AM

    Changing of the guard…?

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  5. Hackerdog
    February 20, 2013 at 9:25 AM

    Scholarship limits are just made up and flagellant anyway.

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