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From @tsweezy

Related to the topic of recruiting class sizes.

I think a lot of discontent is being stirred by the fact that walkons were basically "forced" onto teams who didn't sign 25 players, and then when they have fewer than 25 scholarships available the next season it seems unfair that they could not turn those walkons down and "bank" the scholarships

In any case, I think setting scholarship amounts by departing players is overly complex and leads to some awkward incentives (and down the line dramatically different roster sizes between programs).

I think an easy, clean method with the transfer portal being introduced is that starting next season, programs are capped at 100 players on the roster. So you have 100 players on your roster for the season and are recruiting with 25 scholarships. At the end of the season some players graduate and are off the books, your incoming recruits are added, and then you have to cut players to get to 100. If you are over, you can't have any transfers in and/or AI will cut incoming freshman to keep you at 100 (who then enter the portal). I think this keeps all teams on a level playing field where if you just sign players and play them you'll never have to think about it, but redshirting / accepting incoming transfers requires you to either let players transfer out, or cut players. But ultimately roster management is all in the user's hands.

From @BabaYaga

Proposing that for those schools who can sign 24 players or less be able to cut walk-ons. I think having, say, 7 walk-ons and 15 scholarship spots will make teams imbalanced for the future if they have to keep those walk-ons. IRL, teams can choose if they keep walk-ons so I believe that we should here as well. Teams might have 5-8 dead spots on their team per class which can certainly imbalance a team if they had bad roll luck.

I am very pleased with the play of my rookies on defense.

Better on offense...terrible on defense. Yuck.

wtf Jerome

Mike Bates you beautiful beast. 

I only wanted to beat Nemo this year. 

He's baaaaack.

I am incompetent.

Minnesota is back.

Just so everyone is 100% clear and no one can poke holes, is the gameplan/DC due at 11:59am or pm on Wednesday’s and can you edit that in? Thanks!

Imagine how big @Vivid's ball are to go for the TD instead of the FG.

Nice walk off @nemolee.exe

Ugly win. But I’ll take it. Mike Bates actually might be a decent RB for me this year. 

Northern Illinois finally got back at @rcarlson77 for leaving them years ago.

I know it was UConn but a lot of good to takeaway from our opener today.

Purdue WR's caught eight passes in this game. They caught 15 total last year.
Mike Bates went off for 4 TD's.
Our QB threw 4 TD's. Our QB's threw 5 combined last year.

On 5/21/2023 at 6:35 PM, Pumph said:

That's my boy, Hung-Chih Anderson, leading the Texans to an impressive victory.

I think he was POTG.

Maybe we don't suck.

Positives
All freshman DL showed out combining for 7 TFL and 6 sacks.

Negatives
Everything else

I agree as well. I was really good last year, by mostly solely luck of my team draw.

This year I am probably going to be very bad because the underclass of my team was putrid.

I don't think Y1 or Y2 performance should affect recruiting but wait until we all get "our" players into our systems.

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