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  • In interviews conducted in the weeks since last month's signing day, when top high-school seniors make their college commitments, dozens of signees headed to some of the nation's most chronically oversigned schools were either unconcerned, or unaware, that these schools may have to cut some players to balance their lopsided books.

    SEC Coaches Defend 'Oversigning' Hannah Karp 2011

  • Plenty of other schools oversigned in 2008, but none brought in the level of talent Alabama did.

    SI.com 2011

  • They oversigned thinking several of their recruits wouldn't make it academically.

    SI.com 2011

  • "If you've oversigned, you're going to have to report back to the conference," Hawley said.

    SI.com 2011

  • Plenty of other schools oversigned in 2008, but none brought in the level of talent Alabama did.

    SI.com 2011

  • Teams are allowed to keep 15 scholarship players on their roster but, because Ford oversigned in his latest recruiting class, Oklahoma State was one over the limit.

    College Basketball -- Rivals.com Headlines 2010

  • We'll see whether or not this is a prototype that continues with the 2009 class which is going to be severely oversigned if all comes together as expected.

    Kentucky Sports Radio 2009

  • “I love a lot of the people I work with, but at the end of the day, if my business tanks, I’m the one who’s going to have to leave the country, because I’m oversigned and overleased and I have a gazillion things in my name,” she said.

    Dark Angel of The Hills 2008

  • “I love a lot of the people I work with, but at the end of the day, if my business tanks, I’m the one who’s going to have to leave the country, because I’m oversigned and overleased and I have a gazillion things in my name,” she said.

    Dark Angel of The Hills 2008

  • "We did it several years at the University of Miami where we oversigned, and basically what you're trying to do it target kids that want to come to the University of North Carolina, '' he said.

    newsobserver.com blogs 2009

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