105 man roster limit.

[AikenGameFan]

The biggest issue I have not studied enough to really grasp the effect of yet is the new Roster size rule of 105.

Right now, there are 117 players on our roster. 35 of them are SR or 5 & 6 yr. players. We have 21 commitments right now. Doing the math, that only leaves room for 2 players from the portal. Being Shane does such a great job on the portal, that makes you wonder.
How many players currently on our roster are going to go in the portal? We will never really know, but how many, might/will be, asked to go in the portal? Before when a coach had a sub-par player, he could just tell a player that he was no longer on scholarship, they could stay on the scout team, etc. Now they cannot even be on the team.
We do know Shane will want to bring in way more than 2 portal players. We also know, Shane is still trying to flip commitments from other schools. I just do not understand why NCAA is going to limit schools to 105-man roster. I know it somehow all ties in with the NIL court decisions. Maybe they figure with smaller rosters, more players may get some NIL money.

 

[uscwatson21]

32 of those players are walk-ons. They'll be replaced easily if we have players who want to come in from the transfer portal.

 

[hahnenkampf]

32 of those players are walk-ons. They'll be replaced easily if we have players who want to come in from the transfer portal.

Yep….we’ll also have some second or third team players who’ll enter the portal with an intention to go to a FCS school, recognizing they’ll probably never get an opportunity to play much with the current or future team.

 

[DarkHorse2001]

I think we will have about a dozen players enter the portal. Some will leave because another team is offering more money than we are willing to pay. Some will leave because they don't want to spend another year on the bench.