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This article came out today on D1baseball.com, by Kendall Rogers

College Baseball’s Golden Age receives jolt with more scholarships on the way

The days of college baseball programs being relegated to 11.7 scholarships are about to become a distant memory.

The winds of change are constant around college athletics now. Still, one thing we know for sure is that with the NCAA’s landmark House case settlement, the landscape of athletics in general, and specifically baseball, is about to change forever.

When the NCAA created the Transformation Committee three years ago, several high-level leaders, including Southeastern Conference commissioner Greg Sankey, mentioned increasing college baseball scholarships. At the time, the feeling was that baseball could eventually increase scholarships to a more palatable number, potentially 17-18. It was an idea that honestly seemed like a pipe dream at the time.

Now? Division I Baseball is on the cusp of being in an incredible position from a scholarship standpoint. This week, Sankey confirmed to Yahoo! Sports’ Ross Dellenger, in this piece, that Division I Baseball is expected to settle on a roster limit of 34 players, which is a decrease from the 40-man roster that programs will enter the 2025 campaign with. That reality will make the evaluation process even more critical for coaches. However, the most important piece of news from Sankey is about the scholarship limit or lack thereof.

Division I Baseball is expected to permit programs to offer full scholarships to everyone on their roster. So, if the roster is set at 34 players, all 34 could ideally be on a full scholarship – quite a contrast from the current setup, which allows for 11.7 scholarships to be spread over a 40-man roster. For teams that can’t get to the 34 full-scholarship threshold, you could theoretically spread 18 scholarships over 34 players. One mid-major coach told D1Baseball this week that it would make the situation ‘doable’ for them and others in the same boat. Another mid-major coach, Austin Peay’s Roland Fanning, echoed those sentiments to D1Baseball.

“I think it’s honestly really good for mid-major baseball. There are going to be more players who can’t be on a Power Four baseball roster because of the roster decrease, and that means they’re going to have to find another avenue in which to play college baseball,” Fanning said. “That’s a win for guys like us, that’s a win for DII, NAIA and especially junior college baseball. By doing this, you’re really going to force the bigger conferences to really evaluate those slots. This will be benefit the player, and the mid-majors.”...

There is much more to the article, click the link above.