you are locked on Sooners your daily podcast on the Oklahoma Sooners part of the locked on podcast Network your team every day college football analyst Ross delinger and reporter I should say not just analyst but reporter he does the leg work he's boots on the ground uh reported earlier on Wednesday that the NCAA has reached a settlement for what the roster limits will look like in college football moving forward there and for other sports as well and what the scholarship limits look like so as presently constructed uh football can have 80 scholarships and then a number of walk-on players up to a limit of 120 players well they're upping the scholarship limit to 105 now what this means for Walk-Ons we don't know because also the roster limit will be at so Jay what's your take and what's your your reaction to the news that the roster limit is decreasing scholarship limits are increasing yeah digging into it man it it it's talking about what it's saying roster limit is going to be5 which concerns me right we're used to 120 and I guess for now what's up in the air is what looks like when it comes to the preferred walk- on system right today that is a very big beneficial component to what these teams do because they need the bodies right football is very physical and unfortunately as much as we love this Sport and I love the physicality of it this is this is this generation's version of Gladiators back in the like 1600s these dudes put their bodies on the line every single week and I mean technically they say statistically it's like going through like 30 or 40 small car accidents every single day by the way that they hit each other yeah it sucks but at the same time we love it and I do so you need to have those extra players in for reps you need those extra players in to help with like planning out and scheming and mapping out for your next game what sucks about it is if they get rid of those preferred Walk-Ons man it's going to put a lot of teams behind the eightball I'm just curious to what some of these teams are going to do if they don't have that component available to help them strategize for the season yeah and let me correct myself it's 85 is the current scholarship limit not 80 so you're getting a 20 scholarship bump but I find it fascinating that we're increasing the schedule the the number of potential games that college football teams will play while also decreasing the roster I that doesn't sit well with me because you're asking now college football players to potentially play as many as 16 or 17 games in a season with the expanded college football playoff and there's talk of going from 12 to 16 down the road which right now okay if you get a buy then you're playing maybe three college football playoff games in addition to what your schedule was well it expands to 16 and everybody's gonna have to play they have to play Four to win a National Title so I don't love the idea of decreasing the roster limit and potentially really causing depth issues as you get later into the season recruiting is going to become so much more important and so much more valuable this is going to help some of the halves like a Georgia abama Texas Oklahoma because you're going to be able to take more both in the transfer portal and on the recruiting front as opposed to having to get creative with niil resources you're going to be able to just say Andy bass you're on scholarship you know um you know as opposed to looking at some of the the the guys that you like in the transfer portal but maybe you're not going to have space for well you're going to have space for them now you may not have to Pro quote unquote process guys to get under the scholarship limit you know there there are going to be some roster construction issues that guys like Curtis Lofton and and Brent venables are going to have to work through and and manage and figure out figure out and I'm with you man I don't really like the idea of eliminating the Walk-Ons I I think that has been a an intriguing integral part of college football for a lot of years I mean we have a whole movie devoted to a dude walking on and going and and getting and earning playing time one of the greatest sports movies of all time in Rudy if you don't have the walk-on situation you don't have Walk-Ons you don't potentially have a baker Mayfield situation or a ston Bennett situation you really or or gav Drake stops or Gavin Freeman now some of those Walk-Ons might get scholarship opportunities but I think what happens is those guys that are quote unquote Walk-Ons you're not seeing them rostered you're seeing Oklahoma go after more four stars go after more three star prospects and those Walk-Ons kind of having to go the the smaller school route to the the group of five you know what what makes me what question comes to mind with this is so we all know that these teams get very creative when it comes to doing the scholarship piece as well as the nil plus type setup right and the nil plus nil uh n the pwo plus nil my apologies you know word salad here but the kind of point of that is and in some situations logically it makes more sense when you have graduate transfers to put them on pwo plus nil because it's a lot cheaper they're staying off campus regardless and it's a lot cheaper on the tuition side because they're grad student they're not paying the traditional higher tuition that you would get cuz they're playing taking less hours than you would in undergrad so having players like a dejon Terry a Dominic Williams right like a Kaden Ward it makes more sense to get them on pwo plus nil than it is would be to give them a scholarship so when once you eliminate that capabilities it it feels like it's going to handicap even some of your bigger schools who was using the ability to put them on a non-scholarship and and save the scholarship for the younger players it makes them now have to figure out those 20 additional like we're going to have to finagle some things if we want you know to to get these players on the team that's the question I have is how is that going to affect the W roster construction when you get to those graduates the ones that you want on a nil type pwo setup because like I said cost-wise it's so much cheaper to put them on that instead of wasting a scholarship that you can take that and put give it to a player that you know a younger undergraduate player in comparison that's the only thing jump to my mind yeah it's interesting somebody that's coming out of high school you know you want to have that setup for him you know as an incoming freshman to be able to take advantage of all the resources and and and things that are that are on campus whereas a veteran you're not as concerned about being on campus they can be off campus because they've kind of proven that they can get to campus and they can get to practice and workouts and all that stuff so man I think that's going to be one of the topics that gets brought up whenever OU has its media days and and speaks with Bren venables because you know he and davo Sweeney and I I think Nick Sabin I've heard even talk positively you know and and want to keep the walk-on situation Kirby Smart so many coaches have come out of this walk-on movement over the who knows you know how many years the walk-on movement has been a part of college football but coaches have gotten opportunities to get their foot in the door with programs and then work their way up the the coaching ladder starting off as walk-on so it's gonna be it's going to be really intriguing to see now what that does for college football because the transfer portal kind of messed some things up with high school recruiting where there weren't as many opportunities especially in the covid era where guys were staying in for five six sometimes seven or eight years because of medical red shirts and things like that how that kind of messed up opportunities for high school recruits and then the transfer portal as well well now getting that 20 scholar ship bump maybe it opens the door for more opportunities out of the high school level so it's going to be fascinating to see how this all plays out at the Collegiate level especially at the power four level uh here in the coming years but it's going to it's going to be something we'll cover here on lock on Sooners as we continue to cover recruiting transfer portal all that stuff so make sure you're subscribed to the show wherever you get your podcast free and available on all podcast platforms and on YouTube go follow Jay on Twitter unfair Sports myself John N Williams and you can also subscribe to the locked on Sooners Insider program by texting SEC 2024 to 405 81767 one1 to get 25% off your first month that's where you can have direct one-on-one conversations with myself and Jay you can get you know give us questions give us feedback give us uh topics for the show over there at the locked on cers Insider program again text SEC 2024 to 405 81767 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