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Some more on the NCAA's grant of an extra year for athletes in the Spring sports.
IF you stay at your school, you do not count against the numbers or scholarship limits (so, for example, Texas Softball gets Miranda Elish back, and pays her scholarship, but it does not count against the 12.5 allotted to softball).
IF you transferred schools, you do count against the new schools numbers and scholarship limits.
Thus, assuming it stays the same for fall sports (including football), then it will likely decrease the numbers of transfers because it'll cost them scholarship money and a countable roster spot. Without this rule, Alabama would probably have 150 scholarship players for one season,