re: Will oversigning be Nick Saban's biggest contribution to college football?

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Bama did not sign over 25.

Signing over 25 is the only way to oversign.
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Or if you dont have 25 schollies to give and sign more than that. For example, after the seniors and early NFL declares go, you still have 70 on scholarship. Then you sign 25. That is oversigning.Signing more than 25 is not really the debate. It is how many actually enroled and made it past the clearinghouse.

Tubs signed more than 25 a year but many could not even enroll, for grades and other reasons. So they were under the limit quite often and not oversigning.

I believe a few players signed as greyshirts, for alabama

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I think his point is that every year you start out with 105 kids on your roster... anyone that signed an NLI is bound to a scholarship that would count to the previous year, the current year or the next year(grayshirt)... Everyone else doesn't have a scholarship until it's renewed to them or revoked...

IE, if you take 25 NLI's for the current class you have used 25 of your 85 scholarships... now you have 80 more kids still on the team and you have 60 scholarshipos to renew.

You can not be "oversigned" becuase scholarships are only for 1 year.

Every year every School has 25 scholarships to give out for that class if they choose, period. After that they can renew or revoke scholarhsips to stay under the 25/85 NCAA caps.

The idea of oversigning take the assumtion that a scholarship is good for 4 years, which it is not by NCAA rules. The gray part is that the NLI's are taken in Feburary and the renewals of scholarships are not until July 1st. Since a scholarhsip is not counted until the kid enrolls full time in fall, there is a period of overlap where schools have accepted more NLI's than they have room for IF (big if) they plan to renew all scholarships.

Since they are not bound to renew all he scholarships, they are not oversigned... they will just not be able to renew everyone's scholarship (be that good or bad can be debated, but it is the way the rules are written at this time).

That being said, I would agree that rules need to change to give more control to the athletes and to keep schools for abusing medical hardships...