The House of Blue

Well, I'll be...

Now, I'm a little confused because I have read some articles that say a team can but now when searching again I found an article that says teams can't.

From the link:

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The SEC’s new rules state that programs can only sign 25 players between Dec. 1 and May 31. The previous limit was 28.

Most players sign on National Signing Day, which is always the first Wednesday in February.

But programs also accept early enrollments -- such as Georgia did with Keith Marshall and two other recruits earlier this month. Under the old rules, teams had back-counted early enrollments toward the previous signing class, as a way of signing more players. That is still allowed.

But the programs were also allowed to not count players who signed but failed to qualify academically or didn’t enroll for whatever reason. The SEC clarified Monday that the new rules prevent teams from doing that anymore.

“If a player signs, he counts without regard to whether or not he actually enrolls,” SEC spokesman Charles Bloom said in an e-mail Monday. “ ‘Back counting’ is only permitted for mid-year enrollees who are able to be included as an initial counter for the academic year in which they enroll. ‘Back counting’ is an artificial term for this discussion and not accurate as the question is about the signing limit.”
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I think I can see where this can get a little iffy where it talks about backcounting and comparing it to other things I have read, but it looks like I was wrong.

Can someone hand me a glass of water to wash some words down. :D

If there are no academic issues, I'd love to see Peterson rediscover sanity and the staff take him back.