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Oversigning Is Legal, but Is it Wrong?

True story, with names changed to protect the innocent/guilty ... Jimmy Threestar is a tremendous football player, maybe the best his tiny South Popcorn High School has ever produced. Young Jimmy ran for 8.2 zillion yards against that top-line tiny-school competition as a junior, threw back six Red Bulls mere minutes...

DeWayne Walker Has Lingo Problems

After last year's oversigning kerfuffle it's gotten to the point where people are emailing me the various malfeasances of coaches in search of hot young things with the expectation head will asplode to the entertainment of all. Doctor Saturday might end up a little disappointed with this post, then, as he forwards along...

Background on oversigning

Oversigning (also spelled Over-signing) is an unofficial term for the practice of American college athletic departments signing prospective student-athletes to a National Letter of Intent (NLI) that may exceed the maximum number of athletic scholarships permitted by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).

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