[Husker] Scholarship limit question

[Alan Siporin]

I had hoped the post-signing coverage would have clarified. Let me try one
more time. You have 25 scholarships to give out for any one class. Whether a
kid is a high school senior or a JC frosh or JC soph is irrelevant to this
number. So, of the 25 limit, it happens that 19 were high school kids, 6
were JC transfers. Let that part sink in.

Now, if you didn't fill all 25 slots the year before, you can still fill any
remaining ones, but not with someone who can't start to use it until next
fall, or in other words, a high school kid. So those leftover slots can only
be filled with a transfer of some kind. (In other words, a JC could count
for this year or last year). I had read NU had four leftover slots, but
apparently it was only three. So three of the JC's who are now on campus, in
school, count in last year's class. Clear? Okay, final step, grey shirts.

Think of this as going into debt, borrowing against the future. As long as a
kid doesn't start to use his scholarship (pays his own way), and he doesn't
start to play (start his eligibility clock running) he won't count against
this year's class, even though he committed this year. So that will mean
one, or two, or whatever number, less scholarships available for next year.

Alan Siporin