SEC Could Set NFL Draft First Round Distinction

[Camfantasy]

Perhaps they undersigned the previous year. Perhaps there were injuries or other holes to fill, other than drafted/graduated. Perhaps players know they want to sign with a school even knowing they aren't promised a spot, and will then juco it with the feather in their cap that a major school wanted them once and they might transfer after a year.

Just looking at numbers off the top isn't very telling.

Teams don't "under sign" by 10 recruits. The numbers aren't always the best indicator in a single year, but when teams do it continuously for over an elongated period of time....then it shows it's not just a few people not making the grades or them hoping for an outside chance at a spot on the team. All teams oversign to some degree. It is necessary to stay close to the scholarship cap. Signing 10 recruits more than you have room for every single year is not typical though, and there needs to be a rule set discouraging it IMO.

 

[LawDawg]

Oversigning does not mean signing more than 25 recruits in a year. Oversigning means signing more recruits than you are losing in upperclassmen. If you are losing 14 players to graduation/draft then signing 25 recruits in the same season is oversigning. That means 11 people have got to go somewhere. With that said the SEC's new 25 limit seems irrelevant anyways with A&M signing 31, UGA signing 33, and Florida signing 29 in the 2013 cycle.

I think we probably agree more than we disagree. The problem with oversigning for which the SEC gets ripped in forums like these is when someone like Houston Nutt goes and signs 40 players when he already had 45 or more on his roster. It means he is signing players he know can't qualify, or players he know he will gray-shirt, or he knows he will run some of the existing players off. That's the type of oversigning that gets all the non-SEC homer's panties in a wad, and some of us homers don't like the practice either.

The 25 limit in the SEC is kind of a soft cap ... if you have 25 or less slots available, you can't sign over 25. But, as TAMU and UGa did this past year, if you have slots left from the previous year for whatever reason, you can back fill them so long as the incoming freshman enrolls early. Take my Dawgs ... we had a run of dope smoking, gun toting, sticky fingered players that were kicked off the team. This meant that the 2012 class had been thinned out quite a bit. Because we were able to have 13 players in our 2013 class enroll in the 2012 academic year, they were back counted to the 2012 class. This enabled us to catch up as we were way behind on scholarship players. Personally, I don't see anything wrong with this, and it certainly is within the rules. Instead of getting ahead, they really are just getting caught up when you get the inevitable problem player.

 

[TonyTheGator]

Well, the SEC tied the record with 12 1st round picks this year.

 

[Kid Vicarious]

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[ellupo]

Well, the SEC tied the record with 12 1st round picks this year.

In the worst draft in 10 years. Good job.

 

[Edisto_Tiger]

 

[volsboy]

Manning, Arian Foster, Witten, eric berry, colquitt, and thats just from tennessee.

 

[Edisto_Tiger]

 

[Smoke]

2 undrafted Bobcats just signed rookie free agent deals with the Lions and Falcons. Ujelly?