NHR- question about scholarships

[Bleed_Kelly_Green]

If you have a 2 sport athlete like Jameis Winston for example, does he count against the scholarship limit for both football and baseball?

If not, it would make more sense to me that he's on a baseball scholarship and considered a walk-on for football purposes so that FSU could have Winston's football scholarship to use on another recruit. I know baseball is a huge deal at FSU, but there's no doubt that football is their main revenue sport. Thus, Winston being a non-scholarship player on the football team would essentially give FSU an 86th scholarship to use.

To the contrary, it doesn't seem fair to a University that 1 singular athlete would essentially count as 2 scholarships by going against the limits for both sports.

Can anyone offer some clarity?
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[-Olen-]

The NCAA allows division 1 baseball programs to provide the equivalent of 11.7 scholarships, so baseball is more constrained by the creativity of the coach to divide those scholarships (there may be a counter limit, but the scholly equivalent is the greater constraint). Guys like Winston almost always count against the 25/85 limits in FBS. At FCS, where fb also can provide partials, the two can work together and split the aid in a way that makes sense for the two programs.


Edited to correct scholly equivalents (from 7.75 to 11.7).



This post was edited on 1/2 4:04 PM by -Olen-

This post was edited on 1/2 4:07 PM by -Olen-

 

[banker6796]

There's the "Bear Bryant Rule". Basically, if you are on scholarship for any sport and play football, you count against the football limit. They did this because Bryant used to stack additional football players on the basketball team.

 

[sportsphantom1]

Originally posted by banker6796:
There's the "Bear Bryant Rule". Basically, if you are on scholarship for any sport and play football, you count against the football limit. They did this because Bryant used to stack additional football players on the basketball team.

Didnt we have that issue a few years back when Snyder was coach? Our kicking game was bad so one of the soccer players came over to the football team and we ended up having to count him as a football scholarship?

 

[pdbailey]

Originally posted by sportsphantom1:

Originally posted by banker6796:
There's the "Bear Bryant Rule". Basically, if you are on scholarship for any sport and play football, you count against the football limit. They did this because Bryant used to stack additional football players on the basketball team.

Didnt we have that issue a few years back when Snyder was coach? Our kicking game was bad so one of the soccer players came over to the football team and we ended up having to count him as a football scholarship?

Based on the current rules, if you are a scholarship player in FB and another sport, then the scholarship is count against FB. Moreover, if you accept a scholraship to player another sport, such as baseball, then you are not allowed to walk-on and play FB for your 1st two years at the school.