A small funded headcount, under a regime being rewritten as it runs.
The college golf roster is now a hard-capped, fully-fundable headcount governed by a compensation and eligibility regime being rewritten in real time. This is a rules-and-constraints page: the engine reads the current rules, flags them contested and current-as-of, holds the moving figures in the Value Reference so an update re-prices everything, and folds the roster limit into what a roster actually costs. It feeds the College Team and Roster and the College GM reads.
Equivalencies out. A fully-fundable headcount in.
Under the House settlement, effective July 2025, the old scholarship-equivalency caps gave way to a hard roster limit, and Division I golf now runs under a small, fully-fundable headcount. Golf is a minor revenue sport within the settlement, so its share of a school's revenue-share pool is small. This is the load-bearing college roster fact for golf: a hard, small, fully-fundable headcount the roster engine builds to.
The change from equivalencies to a hard, fundable headcount raised the real cost of a college roster, and the cost read folds that in. The specific cap and the dollar figures are current-as-of and held in the Value Reference, so an update re-prices everything downstream rather than being baked into the page. A small, fully-fundable headcount replaced the equivalency caps, and it raised the real cost of a roster.
Illustrative engine read on the real House-settlement roster structure (the roster limit replacing equivalencies, golf's small pool share, the roster cost impact). Composite figures, the cap and dollars current-as-of and held in the Reference.
Two models, running in parallel. Under litigation.
The eligibility clock is a live, dual-model constraint. The outgoing four-seasons-in-five-years model and the incoming five-year model, the clock starting at first enrollment or an age threshold, run in parallel during the phase-in, under active litigation. The engine reads the current rule, flags the litigation risk on a golfer near a boundary, and carries the confidence accordingly.
A golfer near an eligibility boundary carries real litigation risk, so the engine flags him and lowers his availability confidence rather than asserting a clean answer where the rule is being rewritten. And NIL income does not extend the clock, so the money layer and the eligibility layer are read separately. The clock is dual-model and in transition, so a golfer near a boundary is flagged, not resolved.
Illustrative engine read on the real eligibility-clock structure (the outgoing and incoming models in parallel, the litigation flag near a boundary, NIL not extending the clock). Composite rules, all current-as-of and contested.
One KR scale spans every level. The funding rules do not.
The scholarship regime is level-specific, and the connected-fields ladder spans all of it. Division I sits inside the roster-limit-and-revenue-share model, Division II under its own partial-scholarship limits, Division III with no athletic aid, and the NAIA and NJCAA under their own rules. The engine places a golfer on the correct level's rules, and folds in Title IX and the funding sources as real constraints.
Inside the House-settlement roster-limit-and-revenue-share model: a small, fully-fundable headcount and a small pool share.
The same connected-fields KR scale spans every level, but the funding rules do not: a golfer at a Division III program plays for no athletic aid, and one at a Division I program lives inside the settlement roster limit. The engine places each golfer on the correct level's rules, folds in Title IX and the actual funding sources, and holds all of it current-as-of. One KR scale spans every level; the funding rules are level-specific, and the engine places each golfer correctly.
Illustrative engine read on the real division-by-division scholarship structure (the level-specific aid regimes, Title IX, the funding sources). Composite rules, all figures v0, current-as-of, and held in the Reference.
The engine reads the current rules, treats them as contested and current-as-of, holds the moving figures in the Reference so an update re-prices everything, and folds the fully-fundable roster limit into what a roster actually costs, because the rules are the constraint the whole college build lives inside. It reads the rule that is true today and never dresses a moving one up as settled.
Funding is the constraint the build lives inside. See what it feeds.
The funding and eligibility rules are the constraints on the whole college build, and they feed the roster construction and the program-operator reads directly.