Stetson Bennett was one of the best college football stories of all time. “Rudy,” whatever you think of it, is still one of the most well-known sports movies. They were walk-ons, but those spots … could be going away.
In their place could be a world in which schools that care deeply about certain sports can double and triple how many players they put on scholarship: Mississippi State baseball having 35 players on scholarship, Georgia trying to get back to its gymnastics glory days by going up to 25 scholarships and so on.
Theoretically, this could occur in just the latest plot twist to the college athletic model. Here’s what would happen:
• The scholarship limits for sports, such as 85 for football, would be eliminated.
• But they would be replaced by lower roster caps for each sport. Such as 85 for football.
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This could be agreed to as part of a settlement of the House vs. NCAA case, which is expected to result in revenue sharing with athletes. (If it happens, such a settlement could come in the next two weeks.)
Or getting rid of scholarship limits while putting in roster caps could happen independently of that. Either way, it would be…
