The NCAA is looking at adding scholarships across sports, starting next year. Football would go to 105. The supposed pro's for doing this would be that it sets a hard cap on players. As we have heard, some teams have had "walk-ons" that actually getting paid to cover their scholarship cost. This would close that back door. I also imagine that the NCAA will spin this as a win against the amount of players in the transfer portal (3,800+)
I'm worried that this hurts the G5 schools two ways. The trickle down of players. There will be 1,360 less boarder line players that will go to the G5 vs the P4. I heard a counter argument to this being kids want to play. The kid 3rd on the depth chart will still transfer to a G5 to get playing time. Maybe, but the P4 has more scholarships too, so who is to say they don't just transfer to another, maybe lower, P4 school.
The other part of this is the increase in operating cost for schools. This isn't just a football increase so just the cost having sports is going up. They are saying the projected increase is by 3 to 7 million dollars.