Let's try not to tempt the wrath of the whatever from high atop the thing.
That is my understanding. Also, would be graduating seniors who already played 4 cannot transfer so we wouldn’t be able to get anyone to “take their place”.
I believe he could, but he would take up one of the regular 13 scholarship at his new school for the season. Essentially, he'd be treated like a regular grad transfer. It's my understanding that only returning seniors can bump a school above 13 scholarships (as noted, a max of 15 in our case).
You are correct, Thank you for clarifying.
As much as the NCAA wants to pretend that these players are amateurs, the transfer period has the feel of a free agency period. Players can look around and find programs they'd rather play for, and make their case to the coach for a scholarship. Now that players can make money by marketing themselves, major college basketball has become NBA Lite.
I think your chart misinterprets the NCAA rules. After the 2021-22 season schools will be capped back to 13 scholarships again. To correct this, you could just move Trent/Da'Monte to Scholarships 14/15 and then after they leave transition their lines to be greyed out. They're in a unique position where if they stay or go it doesn't impact our future scholarship opportunities so you can just put them on their unique lines as "bonus covid players" or something. If Ayo/Giorgi/Austin/Jacob chose to stay their extra year I do not think Illinois get to add new recruits and keep their scholarships active. We'd have to make a decision there.
There might be some built-in limitations on what a chart (that has remained virtually unchanged from a layout standpoint for many years) can communicate about the weirdness of this one year.
But it doesn’t end with Ayo’s class, right? If there are not extra scholarships beyond next year with everyone getting extra eligibility it hurts the incoming class for the next 4 years, no?
