NCAA expected to increase Baseball Scholarships to 34
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Important Notes:
The roster limit is both (1) max amount of players a sport can have in a season and (2) max number of scholarships it can distribute. School are not required to use all allotted scholarships.
Walk-ons may still exist as well as players with a partial scholarships.
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The roster limit is both (1) max amount of players a sport can have in a season and (2) max number of scholarships it can distribute. School are not required to use all allotted scholarships.
Walk-ons may still exist as well as players with a partial scholarships.
The story from Yahoo Sports:
New college sports roster limits revealed as House settlement expands scholarship numbers
More than 750 additional scholarships are coming to college sports.
As part of the House settlement agreement made public on Friday July 26. 2024, college leaders are expanding scholarships to full rosters of each sport, eliminating scholarship restrictions and replacing them with roster size limits.
The new scholarship and roster structure — an attempt to prevent future lawsuits — takes effect starting in the 2025-26 academic year and coincides with the settlement’s new model that permits schools to share revenue directly with athletes.
Commissioners finalized new roster limits earlier this week, and they were all revealed with Friday’s court filing.
In the new model, schools are permitted to offer a scholarship to each player on a sport’s roster up to the new roster limits.
the sport of football, with a current scholarship restriction of 85, will now have a roster limit of 105 — a 20-scholarship increase for those schools willing to give the maximum. Baseball, with a current scholarship restriction of 11.7, is expected to have a roster of 34 — a 22.3 scholarship increase.
As is the case now, schools are not required to distribute scholarships to each player.
the annual revenue-sharing cap, is expected to begin at or around $21.5 million.
For some elite power programs, the total cost of both the scholarship additions and the sharing of revenue with athletes will exceed $30 million annually. To maintain compliance with the federal Title IX law, any scholarship increases in a men’s sport will likely need to be replicated in a women’s sport, driving up the additional costs.
But not all programs can afford to add so many additional scholarships. Some administrators are in the process of “tiering” their sports by decreasing investment on certain programs and increasing investment in others. This includes staff and salary cuts as well as the reduction in scholarships from Olympic sports, especially those that generate little to no revenue.
The story from Yahoo Sports:
sports.yahoo.com
The new scholarship and roster structure — an attempt to prevent future lawsuits — takes effect starting in the 2025-26 academic year and coincides with the settlement’s new model that permits schools to share revenue directly with athletes.
Commissioners finalized new roster limits earlier this week, and they were all revealed with Friday’s court filing.
In the new model, schools are permitted to offer a scholarship to each player on a sport’s roster up to the new roster limits.
the sport of football, with a current scholarship restriction of 85, will now have a roster limit of 105 — a 20-scholarship increase for those schools willing to give the maximum. Baseball, with a current scholarship restriction of 11.7, is expected to have a roster of 34 — a 22.3 scholarship increase.
As is the case now, schools are not required to distribute scholarships to each player.
the annual revenue-sharing cap, is expected to begin at or around $21.5 million.
For some elite power programs, the total cost of both the scholarship additions and the sharing of revenue with athletes will exceed $30 million annually. To maintain compliance with the federal Title IX law, any scholarship increases in a men’s sport will likely need to be replicated in a women’s sport, driving up the additional costs.
But not all programs can afford to add so many additional scholarships. Some administrators are in the process of “tiering” their sports by decreasing investment on certain programs and increasing investment in others. This includes staff and salary cuts as well as the reduction in scholarships from Olympic sports, especially those that generate little to no revenue.
The story from Yahoo Sports:
New college sports roster limits revealed as House settlement expands scholarship numbers
More than 750 additional scholarships are coming to college sports.
