The rule regarding gaining back up to 7 ICs is written as the EARLIER of the final day of the school's fall term or December 15th.
Is the final day of the fall term the last day of classes or the last day grades can be issued? Someone help. See below, straight from NCAA.org:
The Division I Council this week approved a one-year waiver of the annual signing limit and initial scholarship limits in football to allow schools to replace up to seven scholarship student-athletes who leave school after the first term.
Both the Football Bowl and Football Championship subdivisions approved the waiver.
Council members acknowledged the solution was temporary but necessary; a more permanent solution will be considered in the coming months.
The waiver addresses concerns about potentially high numbers of college athletes transferring after all student-athletes were given the opportunity to compete immediately after transferring for the first time. It will apply at the end of the first term (students who depart on or after the earlier of the last day of the school's fall term or Dec. 15, 2021, which is the first day of the early National Letter of Intent signing period).
The waiver was recommended by the Football Oversight Committee, chaired by Sandy Barbour, athletics director at Penn State.
"We believe schools should have temporary flexibility to help address possible roster depletion due to
transfers," Barbour said. "This one-year waiver enables schools to properly utilize their scholarship limitations."
The waiver is effective immediately for the 2022-23 academic year only. The overall scholarship limit remains at 85 for the FBS and FCS. And, in the FCS, the limit of 63 scholarship equivalencies also remains in place.
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Is the final day of the fall term the last day of classes or the last day grades can be issued? Someone help. See below, straight from NCAA.org:
The Division I Council this week approved a one-year waiver of the annual signing limit and initial scholarship limits in football to allow schools to replace up to seven scholarship student-athletes who leave school after the first term.
Both the Football Bowl and Football Championship subdivisions approved the waiver.
Council members acknowledged the solution was temporary but necessary; a more permanent solution will be considered in the coming months.
The waiver addresses concerns about potentially high numbers of college athletes transferring after all student-athletes were given the opportunity to compete immediately after transferring for the first time. It will apply at the end of the first term (students who depart on or after the earlier of the last day of the school's fall term or Dec. 15, 2021, which is the first day of the early National Letter of Intent signing period).
The waiver was recommended by the Football Oversight Committee, chaired by Sandy Barbour, athletics director at Penn State.
"We believe schools should have temporary flexibility to help address possible roster depletion due to
transfers," Barbour said. "This one-year waiver enables schools to properly utilize their scholarship limitations."
The waiver is effective immediately for the 2022-23 academic year only. The overall scholarship limit remains at 85 for the FBS and FCS. And, in the FCS, the limit of 63 scholarship equivalencies also remains in place.
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