The increase to 105 scholarships will allow the big programs to have their cake and eat it to. They can still offer 20+ scholarships to high school players, while bringing in a dozen transfers every year.

Somehow the courts under the guise of allowing players to earn from sales of their name image or likeness, have created a system of professional teams with an independent farm system where players are directly paid by the teams, totally disconnected from how their name image or likeness is marketed.
I suspect this is because the NCAA, who were defendants in the case, largely were representing the big programs interests, some of whom were very comfortable with the opportunity to raid other rosters.

I doubt that Plough saying he was going to give Fjsher more carries hurt Vargas' feelings. If you think back to the early season Fisher was the more likely one to have explosive plays, he had waited his turn during Lan's last year. Plough didn't follow though on it anyway.
By the way, the fall off in big explosive plays for the last month coincides with playing the best rushing defences on the schedule.

i think the “NFL potential” comment was a dig at Sac State coach Marion’s comment about missing guys with NFL potential.

Lamont shamberger was on last years team, transferred here last year. Not on this years roster

I wonder if they ever consider the factors that lead the computer algorithms like Massey and Sagarin to rank Rhode Island lower. The committee considers Massey ratings. These primarily are based on comparative scores amongst all teams. You can question the value of that but is is entirely unbiased.

I'm not a coach but I believe its based on film. I'm sure information is shared among friends. But not in person scouting.

The Rhody board posters are under the misapprehension that we have a D2 win. That likely refers to Utah Tech who completed their transition before last year. Utah Tech has a higher rating than three of the teams in their conference.

i think in person scouting is not permitted. That was part of the Michigan sign stealing infraction

No, but playing. His big stop on the last drive was where he came in on a wholesale d line substitution. They have been playing all the two deep guys.

Rhode Island gets some quality transfers and recruits. Similar to Idaho, in that they can get guys rated in the upper range of 3 stars particularly as transfers
They have QB who threw for over 3,000 yards, and a big running back who transferred from Temple gained 1000 yards. Their backup running back was a seldom used Stanford running back..
However Davis' defense is better than Beckton suggests, since they now have their entire starting lineup back except the Connors. Massey's ratings have Davis better than Rhode Island on both offense and defense.

Might be some Cal Poly guys disenchanted as well..

Good research. I remembered the case but didn’t have the detail.

They deal with integers for the number of games allowed and if .30 times 14 is 4.2 they would treat that as 5.

If i recall correctly Gage Gubrud got an additional year after playing in five games for Eastern Washington in 2018. Eastern played in 15 games that year, and i think but do not know that was the reason he was granted a sixth year.

Oddly enough in the Stats Perform preseason poll, Davis was #8, Rhode Island #9, exactly their seeding in the playoffs.

And Sagarin would have Davis at slightly more than a 2 point favorite on a neutral field. And a 5 to 6 point favorite at Davis, if the game was played this week.

Davis was # 10 when the committee released their poll three weeks ago, since then they beat Idaho and Sac and lost to Montana St.

Their QB threw for 332 yards against Montana.. Marion was a pass game coordinator at Texas It seems on their win streak they decided to just go to their strength and it worked until they met a team they couldn't just steamroll. Game was reminiscent of the old Rose Bowls with Woody Hayes

Sac with 20 sacks now trails Montana (21) in conference game sacks. Tied for third are Davis and Idaho State with 18.