I have always heard that they were year to year and it was kind of a gentleman’s handshake to keep it full term.
I think that has changed recently.
rules regarding Athletic Scholarships... from Dec 16th of 2021
NCAA Athletic Scholarship Rules
"Each year, there are roughly 180,000 athletic scholarships available for the NCAA’s D-I and D-II schools. The NCAA requires that a student-athlete meet certain academic requirements in high school, before becoming eligible for an athletic scholarship. Their amateur status must also be certified by the NCAA Eligibility Center.
The average athletic scholarship for all sports in Division I is approximately $14,270 a year for men and $15,162 for women. In Division II sports, the numbers drop to $5,548 for men and $6,814 for women.
It is important to understand that no scholarship is guaranteed for a full four years. Under NCAA rules, scholarships must be renewed every year and depend upon a student’s obligation to actively participate in the sport. They can be revoked for a variety of reasons, including poor performance on the playing field or in the classroom."
I'm not a fan of taking portal players. I think the overwhelming majority of portal transfers are garbage. I'd much rather have a JUCO who just needed to get his gpa up than a guy who didn't do much at another D1 program. I don't think they're magically going to get better by coming to OU. Out of all those listed here, the only one I'd take a chance on is Hudson Card as a serviceable backup, since Beville sure proved not to be. Of course, he wants to be the man where he goes, so say hello to texsa State or SMU.
I'd much rather have that 4* that Bama signed and then recruited over him with two 5* than a 3* Juco kid who is struggling with grades. Last year there were 5000 kids in the portal. They are there for lots of different reasons, just like kids are in Juco for lots of different reasons.
I'm not enamored with recruiting rankings, and Bama has their busts too. They enter the portal. JUCOs aren't given rankings as high as HS players. For what reason, who knows?
I don't mind taking a QB portal transfer because there are so few QBs on any one team and one guy is going to dominate the snaps at QB. OLs, DLs, LBs, WRs, RBs, they get rotated in and out a bit more. Having a situation where there are 2 really good QBs on the same team, I could see one transferring like Jalen Hurts did. You're probably going to get a pretty good QB from that situation.
Outside of Hurts though, we don't seem to get Alabama transfers (or Ohio State, Michigan, Georgia, or Clemson either). Looking at our roster, the scholarship and non-scholarshio portal transfers are from Tulane, UCF, Wyoming, Hawaii, Penn State, Tennessee, Pittsburgh, North Carolina, Arizona State, Missouri, Cal, Washington, texsa State, Louisville, Middle Tennessee State, Abilene Christian, TCU, Northern Colorado, and Arizona/texsa A&M. I stand corrected...we have one transfer from Ohio State, DB Owen Heinecke. I doubt he'll ever play.
As for the JUCOs, has OU had many JUCOs who had trouble maintaining their academic eligibility? I don't remember that being the case. Just thinking of JUCO contributors over the last 10 years...Tawee Walker, Hollywood Brown, Dede Westbrook, Rhamondre Stevenson (smoking weed was a problem though), Devonte Bond, Perrion Winfrey, Isaiah Coe, Josh Ellison, Ben Powers, Will Johnson, LaColton Bester, Emmanuel Beal, Jed Barnett, Brannon Green, Damien Williams (I believe he had his weed issues too)...any of those guys have academic issues that kept them off the field? I genuinely do not recall that.
I read up on the new commitment Dolby, a JUCO and only ranked 3 stars. He had grade issues out of high school but buckled down and got his grades up. He looks pretty good from his JUCO Hudl. So did Rattler, but Dolby's been playing at a higher level of competition than HS.
It sure seems like we've had better luck with JUCOs than portal transfers, other than QBs. Even the QBs are a dud in comparison to what we're used to getting under LincolnRiley.
rules regarding Athletic Scholarships... from Dec 16th of 2021
NCAA Athletic Scholarship Rules
"Each year, there are roughly 180,000 athletic scholarships available for the NCAA’s D-I and D-II schools. The NCAA requires that a student-athlete meet certain academic requirements in high school, before becoming eligible for an athletic scholarship. Their amateur status must also be certified by the NCAA Eligibility Center.
The average athletic scholarship for all sports in Division I is approximately $14,270 a year for men and $15,162 for women. In Division II sports, the numbers drop to $5,548 for men and $6,814 for women.
It is important to understand that no scholarship is guaranteed for a full four years. Under NCAA rules, scholarships must be renewed every year and depend upon a student’s obligation to actively participate in the sport. They can be revoked for a variety of reasons, including poor performance on the playing field or in the classroom."
I’ve heard it both ways. That’s why I asked the question. If their scholarship is guaranteed, telling them they have to go into the portal doesn’t jive. I’m thinking most of those would wind up back home.
I have always heard that they were year to year and it was kind of a gentleman’s handshake to keep it full term.
If it’s year to year, and coaches did the right thing, we should have around 70% in the portal.
rules regarding Athletic Scholarships... from Dec 16th of 2021
NCAA Athletic Scholarship Rules
"Each year, there are roughly 180,000 athletic scholarships available for the NCAA’s D-I and D-II schools. The NCAA requires that a student-athlete meet certain academic requirements in high school, before becoming eligible for an athletic scholarship. Their amateur status must also be certified by the NCAA Eligibility Center.
The average athletic scholarship for all sports in Division I is approximately $14,270 a year for men and $15,162 for women. In Division II sports, the numbers drop to $5,548 for men and $6,814 for women.
It is important to understand that no scholarship is guaranteed for a full four years. Under NCAA rules, scholarships must be renewed every year and depend upon a student’s obligation to actively participate in the sport. They can be revoked for a variety of reasons, including poor performance on the playing field or in the classroom."
