The old 25-man scholarship limit rule per football recruiting cycle has been tossed to the curb for at least the next two years by the Division I Council, and Husker assistant coach Bill Busch is like many in the profession who sees that as beneficial.
"The one thing they finally started to figure out a little bit is where you end the ridiculous 25 initials (scholarships)," Busch was saying this week during an interview with Husker247 about an array of recruiting topics and stories. "You have 85 and that's your number. If you have to sign 40, you can sign 40, but you're still at 85. That's even for everybody. That's an even playground. That's why a lot of schools would get upside down and they could never get back to their 85 and it was like they were always on probation. Because they would be 34 under and they only had 25 to sign, so now it's like you're under probation."
Chris Hummer of 247Sports did a deep dive on this topic this week laying out the main impact points of this rule change, which previously kept your limit to 25 scholarship players you could bring in each cycle. Hummer offered up Kansas as one of the most extreme examples of a program that was absolutely buried by the 25-class limit, with KU down to 39 scholarship players in 2014 and still having never reached 85 from that point to this day under Lance Leipold.
