With six commits for 2018 we have 13 scholarship players for next year and no seniors. I assume someone will have to leave to accommodate Hill in 2019?
Rumor circulating that Garland will not be cleared. His scholarship will become a medical hardship which allows CMA another open scholarship. Hope, this is not true, want to see KG play for the Hogs, but his health is first.
A medical exemption can be given to an athlete who suffers an injury or illness that ends their career. It ensures that, for their remaining eligibility, they receive all the financial aid they would have received before the medical problem. A medical exemption does not count against the program’s scholarship limit (for football, it is 85), but is still paid for from the program’s budget. If the injury occurs during a season, that player still does count against the scholarship limit. Once the season ends, they can be moved to medical exemption and another scholarship is freed up.
If that is true, Garland will have to sit out the 2018-19 season in addition to 2017-18 to make room for Justice, if he is going to sit out two seasons, he would probably end up not playing at all.