The game of college football and the landscape is changing on a day-to-day basis. With the growth of the transfer portal, it was needing to be addressed sooner or later. According to reports, the NCAA is looking into expanding the scholarship limit.
As it currently sits, each school has a limit of 25 scholarships that can be offered a football scholarship. Ross Dellenger of Sports Illustrated has recently reported that the NCAA Divison I Oversight Committee could be close to allowing a waiver to replace any player that leaves through transfers.
This is something that LSU head coach Ed Orgeron has pushed for. He joined Off The Bench with T-Bob Hebert and Jacob Hester back in May. Orgeron discussed how the transfer portal calls for changes to scholarships limits.
1,600 players in the transfer portal is way too much. I don’t know if that’s healthy to get that many players transferring, but that’s the world we are living in. The problem is that when a player leaves, you can’t replace him with an initial (counter). Right now, we only have one initial left. We lose a player, especially at a position like quarterback, then what do you do? Where do you use that scholarship strategically? We know we have needs, but I have to find out with our football team how to use that scholarship the right way. – Orgeon on scholarship limits
“We also have to understand how to support an environment that provides more flexibility, permits legitimate transfers, while holding to account those who tamper and want to turn college rosters into their personal recruiting grounds,” SEC commissioner Greg Sankey stated at conference media day.