The 105 cap is going to quietly end walk-on programs, and nobody's covering it

I've been pulling roster sheets across the Big 12 for two weeks. Posting what I found because the national coverage has been almost entirely about revenue sharing and the portal, and this is the part that actually changes locker rooms. Under the old structure you carried 85 scholarships and a tail of 30–40 walk-ons. Scout team, special teams, the guy who runs the opponent's offense in practice all week and never plays a snap on Saturday. The hard 105 cap doesn't add scholarships so much as it deletes that tail. Every scholarship you add comes out of the same 105. So the math for a coaching staff is brutal and obvious: why carry a walk-on when that body could be a scholarship player? Three programs I looked at have already cut their walk-on numbers by more than half. Utah is not one of them yet. That's a choice Whittingham's staff is making, and it's worth understanding that it IS a choice, and that it costs something.