When I joined HD at the beginning of recruiting I received an email from the commissioner stating the maximum size of any class on my roster was 6. It also stated to pursue transfers & JUCO if necessary. Can any one tell me how a roster can have 9 seniors and one walkon? There''s obviously something I don't understand.

I had 7 sophomores,so I cut a scholy to get down to the limit. It has already affected me in depth this season. I am not "telling" on anyone. I simply want to clarify my understanding of the rule. Can anyone help on this? Thanks for any replies.

I'm guessing the team you're referring to had a sim coach recruit those 9 players.  Sims don't have that max class size restriction.

The rule does not apply to Sims so if a team has 9 Srs it is because the Sim recruited that way and a person must have taken over after

The "six players in a class" rule applies to human coaches who are recruiting/signing players. Sim-coached teams are not bound by this and, through a variety of reasons, can wind up with "superclasses" of 7+ players in the same class year. If a human then picks up this team (like you did with yours),  that human will appear to have recruited more than six players in a given class.

Now the bad news -- you did not have to cut a sophomore to get from 7 down to 6. You would have been allowed to keep the 7 sophs through their graduation. After their senior year, when you had 7 scholarships to fill, you would have been able to sign only 6 freshmen for the next year...the seventh scholarship would have had to go to a JUCO or non-freshman transfer player.

Thanks for the clarifications. It seems like an ill timed and poorly worded notification for my first season in HD. I had 3 Seniors and 7 Juniors. As explained above this rule doesn't even apply to me until after the next two yearsand starting the third year. Heck, I might not even be here by then.Thanks everyone.

It's an automatic message that goes out at the start of every season. You'll delete it without reading after you've played the game 2-3 seasons, but coming in and taking over a squad that has a superclass, I can see where there'd be some confusion having received it and seeing 6+ players in a class. 

You can only have 6  players recruited in one class.  That said you could have up to 12 players in one class if they weren't recruited at the same time if you later got jucos/transfers into that class or dropped an older player in via redshirt.

That's distinctly untrue.  If you have 6 sophomores you CAN NOT recruit sophomore JUCOs or transfers.  You can, however, redshirt a junior so that you'll have 7 juniors the following season.  The most a human coach could ever put into 1 class would be 9: recruit 6 guys, redshirt a soph, redshirt a junior the following year, and redshirt a senior the next year so you end up with 9 seniors the year after that.

Oh I'd never heard that, so, I guess 7 would be the most possible. Sorry for the misinformation. 

Posted by dahsdebater on 4/12/2012 9:28:00 PM (view original):
That's distinctly untrue.  If you have 6 sophomores you CAN NOT recruit sophomore JUCOs or transfers.  You can, however, redshirt a junior so that you'll have 7 juniors the following season.  The most a human coach could ever put into 1 class would be 9: recruit 6 guys, redshirt a soph, redshirt a junior the following year, and redshirt a senior the next year so you end up with 9 seniors the year after that.

add in a medical hardship (which I've never actually heard a live case of someone getting, but theoretically...)