I’m starved for coaching news just like all of you but figured I’d post this to kill some time.
Reports are that roster limits will be 105 starting next season. I believe that’s down from 135 ish with 85 of those being scholarships and the other 50 walk ons.
We’ve also heard from Robert Allen that OSU is supposed to revenue share about $15 million strictly with the football team. I’m glad we’re giving the lion’s share of revenue sharing to football as they pay all the other bills for our sports.
We know we’re losing about 30 seniors due to exhausting their eligibility. We also know we’re going to have to boot some walkons or kids that aren’t going to contribute off the team.
I believe the fastest way to turn us around (excluding hiring Todd Monken and Jim Knowles) would be to NOT fill out the roster to 105 players.
NFL rosters make do with 52 players. They’re also able to sign players to a practice squad to replace players as they’re injured.
The NFL model is what I’d try to emulate. I think 72-75 players is the correct number of roster spots for a program like ours that doesn’t have infinite money to throw around.
Just look at the math: $15 million divided evenly among 105 players is $143k per player.
$15 million divided evenly among 75 players is $200K per player.
An extra $57k/player per year isn’t a small amount of money.
If you were able to field a roster of 65 players, that’s $231K per player.
I hope we don’t take players just to get to the 105. We need to aggressively target the best portal players that we can afford that will impact NEXT season. Taking high school players at this point other than skill position guys that can play right away seems foolish.
Reports are that roster limits will be 105 starting next season. I believe that’s down from 135 ish with 85 of those being scholarships and the other 50 walk ons.
We’ve also heard from Robert Allen that OSU is supposed to revenue share about $15 million strictly with the football team. I’m glad we’re giving the lion’s share of revenue sharing to football as they pay all the other bills for our sports.
We know we’re losing about 30 seniors due to exhausting their eligibility. We also know we’re going to have to boot some walkons or kids that aren’t going to contribute off the team.
I believe the fastest way to turn us around (excluding hiring Todd Monken and Jim Knowles) would be to NOT fill out the roster to 105 players.
NFL rosters make do with 52 players. They’re also able to sign players to a practice squad to replace players as they’re injured.
The NFL model is what I’d try to emulate. I think 72-75 players is the correct number of roster spots for a program like ours that doesn’t have infinite money to throw around.
Just look at the math: $15 million divided evenly among 105 players is $143k per player.
$15 million divided evenly among 75 players is $200K per player.
An extra $57k/player per year isn’t a small amount of money.
If you were able to field a roster of 65 players, that’s $231K per player.
I hope we don’t take players just to get to the 105. We need to aggressively target the best portal players that we can afford that will impact NEXT season. Taking high school players at this point other than skill position guys that can play right away seems foolish.
