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DSA: What It Means For UCF

Yesterday the NCAA answered the question of what happens to athletes over the 105-player limit, but I look to answer questions about the confusion since the announcement and what it means for UCF.

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Stephen Leonard
Jul 03, 2025
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ORLANDO, FL - The landscape of college athletics has continuously shifted since ghe inception of the sport from the advent of redshirting to initial television contracts to the “Ed O’Bannon v NCAA” case which called into question the definition of college players as amateurs, to the dawn of the NIL era to the shocking departures of Texas and Oklahoma from the Big 12 setting off a wild round of realignment that’s still ongoing to now as once again United States District Court Judge Claudia Ann Wilken has presided over a monumental court decision that has shifted college athletics approving the House Settlement, ushering in a new era of college athletics. Teams are already beginning to feel the effects of the settlements approval with revenue-sharing contracts and caps on spending beginning earlier this week. A major issue with the settlement that was left unresolved until yesterday was rostered players that mean schools have more players than the 105-man rosters allowed by the agreement, including UCF with 110 players currently on the roster.

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