[log in to unmask] (Adam Wodon) wrote:
 
>>Both Michigan and Boston College seemed to have an unusually large
>>number of freshmen.  Three possibilities:
>>1) colleges are getting more and more top junior players now
>>2) it is a sign that the quality of college hockey is about to take
>>   a fast leap, or
>>3) it's just an aberration.
 
>You can never have more than 18 players on scholarship --- so none of
>the above have anything to do with it.  It certainly bodes well for
>those schools --- but they had a lot of scholarships to give, so they
>gave them.
 
This is actually a little inaccurate.  They are not allowed to have
more than 18 scholarships, which may be split anyway the school sees
fit with an upper limit of spreading it to 30 athletes.
 
So theoretically, there can be 30 athletes on a team, all receiveing
some form of scholarship aid.
 
Jayson
 
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