100%. Immediate cut to hard roster caps was going to live way too many student athletes out in the cold. Would've been very unfortunate.This is the only thing that makes sense. You can’t reasonably go from ~40 man wrestling rosters to 30 and unnecessararily, negatively impact so many innocent students when a phase in would allow a fair and reasonable approach to roster management. Seems to me like 35 for this year, 32 next year and then a hard 30 going forward would be reasonable. Obviously, something similar would apply to all other sports impacted negatively while those impacted positively or not impacted at all, e.g. men’s and women’s basketball could have limits that best benefit the students.
That said it would probably been a big positive for mid-major and D2 programs.
Nothing official yet so we will have to continue to wait and see.