Sources: NCAA to increase scholarships for sports, with football getting roster limit of 105 players
As part of the new revenue-sharing model, by-sport scholarship restrictions will be eliminated, and schools are permitted to offer scholarships to the entirety of their rosters.
College Baseball's Golden Age receives jolt with more scholarships on the way • D1Baseball
We're in the middle of college baseball's Golden Age, and the sport's situation is about to get even better with a move to allowing programs to offer full scholarships.
d1baseball.com
Set to go into effect Fall of 2025 with approval of the House v NCAA lawsuit settlement.
Quotes from the above two sources - Ross Dellinger at Yahoo! Sports and Kendall Rogers at D1 Baseball.com
During a meeting Tuesday, power conference commissioners finalized new roster-size limits that pave the way for athletic departments to distribute millions of dollars in new scholarships to athletes in, most notably, football, baseball and softball.
"Baseball will see a massive increase in scholarships going from 11.7 allowed scholarship slots to 34. (Roster size will decrease from 40 to 34). For teams that can’t get to the 34 full-scholarship threshold, you could theoretically spread 18 scholarships over 34 players. The ability to offer more than 30 full scholarships to a college baseball team is a big win for the student-athletes. That much is certain. The other big winners with this news are the programs and conferences willing to provide the money to fund more or a roster full of scholarships. Sources believe that almost all of the SEC, ACC, and Big 12 institutions will fund the full number of scholarships in baseball. There’s more uncertainty on where the majority of the Big Ten stands on this issue, while the Sun Belt, one of the rising power conferences in college baseball, is a league that is expected to do all it can to offer the amount needed to compete against the SEC and ACC."
Football will increase to 105.
Basketball will increase from 13 to 15.
Softball will increase from 12 to 25.
Volleyball will increase from 12 to 18.
I guess this is good for the schools that can afford it. It will make it harder for mid-level schools to compete in recruiting. A school that can only afford to fund , say, 20 scholarships
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