Beginning in 2025, D1 men’s basketball teams will be capped at 15 roster spots, and schools will be allowed to offer up to 15 scholarships.
15 Scholarship rule starting next year
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You aren't getting any good quality for players 11 to 15. No one is going to a place to never play. Injuries like this season won't happen again.
Teams already can’t keep their second string players from season to season. Those last five scholarships are either going to be wasted on guys who will never be good enough to play or they will bolt after one year.
Sounds like teams will have a rotating group of benchwarmers who change every year, see no game action, but eat into the team’s salary.
Bama has a roster full of dudes that can play. Pope needs to follow Nate Oats model.
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Most P4 programs probably won't use them all.
Coaches aren't going to allocate much NIL to end of bench players.
I really don't understand this rule change.
It just seems to clash with today's players who want it all handed to them.
Nate Oats has exactly 10 guys seeing double digit minutes. His 13th man plays 1.5 minutes per game.
His point is load the roster with studs then injury isn’t as big of an issue. Go out and fill your last 3 spots with athletic high school kids who are projects so you have some guys to take fouls, guys who may not be good yet but they can learn to defend in a couple weeks.
He lost 2 of his rotation players to injuries. Wrightsell and Reid who is working his way back into the rotation.
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If they don’t use them, they can’t participate in revenue sharing.
Opt-Out Schools: Programs that choose not to participate in the new system will retain the current model of 13 scholarships and can carry more than 15 players on their roster. However, opting out means they will not participate in the revenue-sharing system, so their athletes won’t benefit from the annual financial distribution.
True.
Need athletic players in #11-13 spot, at least can give some defense even if they are garbage in offense...
Yeah idk. I guess I need further explanation.
They never required schools to have 13 on scholarship.
I don't know why they would force schools to put 15 kids on scholarship each year.
We could always put Walker, Grant and Zach on scholarship.
Problem solved.
Those two are already included in the 10. Sounds like without injuries he would have only played 8 or 9 guys double digit minutes.
It just keeps you from having a bunch of walk on practice players with a cap of 15. Every year the bottom 3 spots should be Low D1/D2 type guys with upside who just want to wear the jersey and can give you a look in practice. Every once in a while someone will turn into a useful rotation player.
Yeah. They are basically saying “we aren’t forcing you but we are forcing you”.
I hate this concept bc it kills the walk-on model. They should cap the roster size at 16 just to allow a single walkon spot
It's almost like the NCAA is looking at 13 as being a competitive advantage.
I don't understand how this ever got passed.
I'd love to know the reasoning behind it.
Sounds like something rooted in liberal politics
Probably stemming from an idealistic view of “all players deserve to be paid if they are a part of the team and giving their time/energy etc”….knowing the universities won’t turn down revenue sharing.
Secondly, it creates an even playing field for the revenue sharing…I.e. that money has to be divided by 15 first before allocating more or less to NIL budgets. Instead of guys like Cal (he stated this was his philosophy this past year) only taking 7-8 scholarship guys thus doubling the buying power of the revenue sharing.
So, I get the concept to create a same set of rules for everyone/structure. But I wish they would have left a single extra roster spot for the non-traditional college athlete that can walk on to a school above their scholarship level out of HS bc they’d rather be a part of a bigger program than play at a small program…and maybe earn their way to scholarship status…I.e. Josh Allen, Baker Mayfield etc…. Or the story on our team this year with the kid on senior day
I’m not sure I understand this. Teams are already stacking less depth lately and we’re increasing the number of scholarships? While capping the total roster at 15 so you couldn’t have a slew of walk ons if you want? I guess you can’t still have walk ons in general if your roster is 15 or less, you would just have a slightly awkward situation where you opt not to give a kid a scholarship.
12th or 13th through 15th should be Kentucky boys, IMHO.
Perry and Noah plus maybe get a transfer or recruit from Kentucky. Dynes (7’2 averages 3 blocks per game) from Youngstown St. would be a nice 15th man. Or if we could get the Walker (6’8 from Erlanger) kid to decommit from SCAR. Or get both.
Perry and Noah plus maybe get a transfer or recruit from Kentucky. Dynes (7’2 averages 3 blocks per game) from Youngstown St. would be a nice 15th man. Or if we could get the Walker (6’8 from Erlanger) kid to decommit from SCAR. Or get both.
Personally I think if kids 1-5 have gargantuan NIL deals, they should be limited on scholarship money. Let the school use that for other kids that aren't getting big marketing deals.
The idea of a kid making $100,000 a year to play college basketball but also getting $40,000 a year for a scholarship is insane to me. There should be financial limits to scholarships based on NIL income.
The idea of a kid making $100,000 a year to play college basketball but also getting $40,000 a year for a scholarship is insane to me. There should be financial limits to scholarships based on NIL income.
I think that's covered in the new revenue sharing mandate. The NCAA added scholarships to multiple mens and womens sports and the athletic departments have to use their own revenue to pay for those scholarships, among other things. There is a thread discussing the new revenue sharing mandates below. Essentially all the "athletic" scholarships going forward are paid for by the money the sports generate for the school from ticket sales and merch all the way up to TV licensing deals. Something like 22% (or up to 20.5 million per school) has to be spent on the sports the schools offer.