oldrunner
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There are a couple of things that you are misunderstanding. Opting in does not give you two more grants. It just allows you to spit grants. You could give full grants to 13 or you can split the money between the 15 as reduced grants.I've made some adjustments for 2025-26 Projections:
1. If Montana opts in to the House Settlement, and they will because they have NIL collectives, they are going to have scholarships for all 15 rosters positions. If they opt out, they'd have the same constraint of 13 as before.
2. As such right now for next year all rostered players are eligible to receive scholarships (Dick is a WO) would be considered to be a scholarship player. This makes future calculations a lot easier.
3. Right now Montana likely has 2 or 3 available roster positions for next year that can be used. Two weeks ago that number might have been at least five. So you can expect some post-season recruiting to happen to add to the roster that we might not have expected. I had expected maybe one scholarship (which they filled w/ Aguino) with the two RS kids this year coming off RS and on to the active roster.
NIL is a whole separate thing and the school does not set that up or offer it. It comes from outside organizations and is not part of the contract between the school and the player. I suppose it could make up the differencce from the reduced grants.
Also, red shirt players are part of the roster and count as part of the totals allowed.
You can have as many walk ons as you want, but if they make you go over the 15 person roster limit, then they simply do not appear on the roster. I belive that they can still get NIL.
Interesting note; Oregon has a total of $7,000,000 in NIL money going into their players. All of their walk ons are getting $150,000 in NIL money. It helps being THE Nike school.