We Can Have 15 Players on Our Roster

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Looked it up.

Can have 15 on a roster.

Only 13 on Athletic Scholarship

Can only dress out 13 for a game. The other 2 must be in street clothes and cannot sit on the team’s bench.

Right now we have 13, counting Elvin, with 2 recruits.

All 15 could be on next season’s team, though 2 would be like Elvin…no scholarship.

Simply put someone like Shead can return and live off his Exxon NIL.

Am thinking this is not difficult to deal with, since we have a strong NIL situation.

If a current player does leave then Sampson does a portal transfer.

Regardless of how Sampson manages this he can have a 15 man roster next season, with 2 living off and attending Grad School off, his NIL deal.

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You can have all 15 dress for the game… no limits. And All 15 players can play if Coach made that decision. Again based on nobody doing a RS that particular year.

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@TucsonCoog we’d never exceed 13.

I think Coach said “its too many mouths to feed”

His rotation typically is 8-9 guys get decent minutes.

That means 4 guys are getting no PT. Those guys are okay, if they’re redshirting.

But, if they’re losing a year of eligibility, getting 0 time, they probably transfer

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Never say Never.

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And asking scholarship level players to pay their own way is quite a faux pas, in my estimation. They should be able to spend their NIL on whatever they want. Thats what the scholarships are for. NIL does not equal scholarship and is not from the University.

I would cost them over 20k in tuition and fees alone plus food, plus housing, etc

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I think they can still be on scholarship - it just has to come from somewhere besides athletics.

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Yep. So just give them a fake scholarship from somewhere else in the University? good idea.

Edit: After doing some research, I don’t think this is true. Basketball is a “head count” sport so its 13 scholarships. period.
CAA I sports are Head Count sports: Men’s & Women’s Basketball, FBS Football, Women’s Gymnastics, Tennis & Volleyball. A head count sport means the stated scholarship limit is absolute, and the number of athletes receiving awards cannot exceed this number, even if the awards are partial. Head count sports generally award a much higher percentage of full scholarships than equivalency sports.

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I believe only 13 can dress for a game

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Hmmm. I’ve never seen players in street clothes, that weren’t injured.

Edit: under NCAA guidelines it says you can have 15 on Roster. Nothing abt only 13 can dress. I don’t feel like looking up any further but in all my years of watching I’ve never seen or heard that only 13 of 15 can dress.

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thats true isnt it. i cant find any good sources. I think you are probably right and the website i read that is wrong

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I told you to stay off those funky sites. :joy::sweat_smile:. No need, when you have Coogfans site

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but i read it on the internet

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I won’t ask where!! :grimacing::nauseated_face::face_with_head_bandage:

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CKS seems to only want about 10 players expeting to play or expecting an opportunity to earn PT. He seems to like guys red shirting or med shirting every year to keep the rotation guys happy.

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The way players are going down these last few years i hope he has 11 he can trust just in case of injury.

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1 Jamal Shead PG 6-1 195
2 Cedric Lath C 6-9 265
3 Ramon Walker SF 6-5 210
4 L J Cryer G 6-1 180
5 Javier Francis C 6-8 235
11 Damian Dunn G 6-5 195
12 Jacob Mcfarland C 6-10 205
13 J’Wan Roberts F 6-6 230
15 Kordelius Jefferson G 6-3 180
20 Ryan Elvin G 6-0 170
21 Emmanuel Sharp SG 6-4 205
23 Terrance Arceneaux SF 6-7 190
24 Mylik Wilson G 6-2 175
25 Joseph Tugler F 6-6 215

We have 13 scholarship players on this years plus one walk-on, Ryan Elvin. Two players, McFarland and Jefferson, are being redshirted but still count against the 13 scholly players.

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If we already have 13, and all return, then we could add the 2 Freshmen, be at 15 total.

Only 13 can be on an Athletic Scholarship. The other 2 are then handled in another way financially.

However, if Sampson is content with only 13 then, obviously, 2 must leave at season’s end.

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I looked it up.

The Kansas roster has 17 players.

The UT roster has 16 players.

The ISU roster has 15 players.

Obviously they, and no doubt others, have crafted ways to use NIL, Academic Scholarships, and other legal means to increase depth.

We have not. Starting with 13, redshirting 2, then lose 3 to injury leaves us with 8.

Kansas could go through that and, somehow, still have 12 on their roster.

I have no idea how Kansas has 17, but they do. Their published roster, available on ESPN, shows 17 names.

Seems logical to believe that our 2 signees for next season is not even close to being our final tally.

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good research. Thats interesting. It’s very hard to nail down the actual rules from the NCAA. They don’t seem to be published in an easily accessible location online.

I’ll bet you though, that we end up with 13 roster players next year and no non-scholarship players of note