College football underwentsweeping changes in the last year. And that was conference realignment shook the foundation of the sport.The COVID-19 pandemic and transfer portal have impacted roster management for the 2021 season and beyond. The 12-team College Football Playoff proposal, a response to the dominance of a handful of schools in the four-team era, shook up the summer. Then Texas and Oklahoma's move to the Southeastern Conference kick-started another potential realignment shuffle.What does that mean for the Power 5 and Group of 5? Sporting News sent a survey to FBS coaches (prior to the Oklahoma-Texas bombshell) to respond to a 15-question survey dealing with all of those questions. Coaches were asked to respond anonymously Nicklas Lidstrom Kids Jersey to any questions that applied to their programs.A total of 20 coaches responded to our survey. Here were there answers: Nine of the 11coaches that responded to this question had few i sues with the idea of the transfer portal, but there were concerns about maintaining an 85-player roster without a deadline."The two biggest i sues are the delicate talent management dance some are constantly performing as they attempt to keep their roster happy," a FBS coach said. "The other, more pre sing i sue, centers around having the ability to restock our rosters despite the hard cap or initial counter limits.""No i sues with new transfer rules," another coach said. "You just have to move the decision date up so we can adjust the program depth chart accordingly before the season."The lone coach to di sent does not agree with the increased use of the transfer portal."The i sue we're seeing is way more players are entering the transfer portal and not finding a place to go," one Power 5 coach said. "Something like 25 percentof those who entered last year are finding a home, so they're losing their opportunity to find a scholarship or play."The rules condition kids to quit and think the gra s is always greener," he said. "It does impact roster management." The Super Senior rule is in place for 2021, which allows players who were seniors in 2021 to come back because of the season impacted by COVID-19 in 2020. A total of 60 percent of the coaches who responded said the rule will make it much more difficult to manage rosters and recruiting cla ses after this season:"An emphatic yes," one FBS coach said. "Not for 2021, but for the next three years not knowing who's going to come back, who's going to leave. It puts us in a real management bind of how we handle incoming recruiting cla ses.""There Johan Franzen Kids Jersey is very little clarity in terms of who will be leaving your roster and when," another coach said. "As a result it is difficult to forecast how many prospects we can sign in a given year. This will force coaches to make difficult decisions not in the best interest of current players and/or recruits."CONFERENCE PREDICTIONS: | | | | SECAs a result, several schools might have smaller recruiting cla ses in 2021."Signed a smaller number of freshmen this year," one coach said. "Don't want two full cla ses of freshmen once the super seniors are gone. People will have 50 freshmen out of 85." Coaches were split 50/50 on the expanded scholarship question. Those same coaches said COVID-19 has not impacted their preparation for the upcoming season to this point."Yes, there should be relief for another year or two so we can all naturally get back to the 85 limit," one coach said.Here is a take from a coach who disagreed with the scholarship number going up."The i sue with expanding the rosters will create an unbalanced playing field as some teams could have more scholarship players than others for multiple years. Unfortunately, we may just have to deal with this right now."Another coach said the numbers game has to increase."The biggest i sues are the 25 initials and the 25 Hard Cap in a single season," he said. "This does not Red Wings Blank Men Jersey allow you to properly replenish your team. My first choice is that a program needs to be at 85 on Aug. 1, however they get there. The other option would be to keep the 25 limits but allow a team to add one for every transfer they lose and for every player who goes on medical (maximum of three medical redshirts each season)." Only two out of 12 coaches who responded said they had major concerns with NIL, other than how the proce s will be regulated.The tone of the answers is the same, however.RELATED: "We support opportunities for the players," one coach said. "That's a very good thing. What scares me are the loopholes in the rules that aren't being addre sed by the NCAA and are being exploited. It's like legalized cheating.""I don't even know what those concerns are yet because we don't know what it will look like yet, but it is going to be a can of worms," another coach said. "We are going to have to get the kinks worked out of it. How big of an impact it is going to have will be anybody's gue s.""Yes, I am for players being able to earn extra money, but feel the proce s has been rushed and there will be many unintended consequences," yet another coach said. Every coach that answered this question was in favor of playoff expansion."We see the FCS, Division II, and Division III have really clear playoff structures and include more teams," one coach said. "I understand there is the bowl Nick Jensen Women Jersey structure, but you could play the playoff games through the bowl system and get to the point where there is excitement and enthusiasm like March Madne s in college basketball withsurprise upsets and surprise teams that make a run.""More teams now feel they have a legitimate chance to make it into the playoff and prove they belong," another coach said. "There will be upsets every year and interest in college football will skyrocket."Three coaches still favor an eight-team model."I'm not for 12," one coach said. "I'd prefer six to eight teams. Expand slowly instead of abruptly all at once.""I'd be looking at more of six to eight teams where conference championships are rewarded and then you have some at-large options," another coach said.One FBS coach preferred a 16-team model."I'm in favor of it 100 percent, but the only thing that is wrong with it is it isn't enough," he said. "Sixteen would be better, but 12 is a step in the right direction. It was long overdue. There is too much money left on the table and there is not enough opportunity." One concern with playoff expansion is the potential harm to college football's regular season. Nine of 12 coaches that responded said that damage will be minimal or have no impact at all on the regular season."It would make it more of an experience, and you would see players be more engaged," one coach said. "Right now, you have seniors who see they aren't going to make the playoffs, and so they exit and they get ready for the NFL.""More teams are going to be playing meaningful games later in Terry Sawchuk Jersey the season therefore this only seems to improve the regular season,