It Is Time For The NCAA To Address The Recruiting Tragedy of "Oversigning".

[BRAVEHEART123]

In case many of you are unfamiliar with what oversigning is, it is when a Head Coach signs more kids than his "regular" scholarship allotement per year.

This practice in my opinion, has damaged lives and destroyed kids whose dreams of attending college are not only to play college football but to receive a quality education.

Basically, it is screwing a kid all the way around by lying to him just to get him to sign on the dotted line.

Now, this not only happens in D-IA Football, it happens in HBCU Athletics As Well. I have seen too many kids get screwed out of a college education.

Another proposal I would like to make is that if a kid is on scholarship his freshmen year and he has maintained the required G.P.A for that year, no matter if a new coach comes in a decides to clean house (Cleaning House is once again a method to screw over young kids :smh, the school must honor that kids scholarship for up to four years. Four years should give him plenty of time to graduate even if he is told by the coach that he won't be retained. NCAA Scholarships should only be taken from an athlete if they do not attain the required G.P.A. I hate that the NCAA makes it scholarships "yearly", instead of four year scholarships....:angry:.

Meaning, if Coach Spears sees a Freshmen off of this year's team that he feels he needs to eliminate in order to make room for another so called "superstar" player, Alcorn would still have to honor that kids Scholarship if he maintained the required G.P.A. Spears would only be able to use scholarships from those granted to him by the NCAA for THAT NEXT FISCAL YEAR.

Oversigning is unethical, it destroys a kid's future, and I feel it should no longer be tolerated.

 

[Fiyah]

Meaning, if Coach Spears sees a Freshmen off of this year's team that he feels he needs to eliminate in order to make room for another so called "superstar" player, Alcorn would still have to honor that kids Scholarship if he maintained the required G.P.A. Spears would only be able to use scholarships from those granted to him by the NCAA for THAT NEXT FISCAL YEAR.

So this is what this is all about.
You must have word that your great mancrush "spears" is about to clean house and let some players go that may hurt your team.

 

[wahines]

Most of the schools, no matter what level does not care about the kids anymore. All they think about is winning.

 

[In_The_662]

OTL did a feature on this and the SEC blatantly do it and to the extreme. Houston Nutt signed 38, 13 over the limit of 25. Les Miles lied about a kid quitting but they just snatched his scholarship for a star recruit and he ended up transferring to SELA I think...

As Wahines said, it's all about wins... nothing else

 

[DallasCowboyGirl]

No matter what Spear do as far a not renewing scholarships IT will affect your APR so alcorn better be ready for any move that may occur in this area of over allotment plus you will be paying for that in the very short future...so he better make it work for him and the team.

 

[Blacknbengal]

UH-OH!!!

 

[jsupop33]

There are rules to scholarship snatching. A coach can not simply snatch or reduce your scholarship without proper advanced warning (in the case of performance related issues) and athletes have the right to contest their scholarship reductions via a formal hearing.

The problem is that very few Athletes actually read the NCAA sports handbook to know their rights. They just accept the fact that the scholarship is snatched without contesting it.

 

[MikeBigg]

Oversigning needs to end and we all need to adhere to compliance with APR requirements. It is long overdue.

 

[TSUalum05]

There are rules to scholarship snatching. A coach can not simply snatch or reduce your scholarship without proper advanced warning (in the case of performance related issues) and athletes have the right to contest their scholarship reductions via a formal hearing.

The problem is that very few Athletes actually read the NCAA sports handbook to know their rights. They just accept the fact that the scholarship is snatched without contesting it.

While I was at TSU, one of my friends in 2006 won her appeal and was able to keep her soccer scholarship.

 

[jsupop33]

While I was at TSU, one of my friends in 2006 won her appeal and was able to keep her soccer scholarship.

I tried to tell some teammates this back in 2006 when Comegy was coming through swinging the axe (he cut around 30 players I believe)

Also, a quick way to get a coach off your azz when it comes to scholarship cutting without proper notice or procedure is to file a complaint with the NCAA. It is a clear NCAA violation to cut schollies without giving athletes a a fair warning.

 

[Devil's Gun Trigger Man]

somebody hasn't been doing their research, the SEC even has a rule affectionately know as "The Houston Nutt Rule". It limits them to only being able to sign 25 kids a year, but some schools still get around it by greyshirting kids.