The only way around the new rule, at least at the start, is to try and pick up a transfer in mid-December if a scholarship is available on this year's team. For example, Georgia Tech has 10 on scholarship this season. It could offer three scholarships to transfers at mid-year and they wouldn't count against next year's five incoming players. The NCAA's response to a team in Georgia Tech's situtation, which has a coaching change, is, well too bad. The response to an Arizona, which could lose four underclassmen starters to the NBA is, well, don't recruit those players without knowing the consequences.
People keep looking for loopholes and yet they bitch about the manual being so big.
People spend weeks trying to find the loopholes. Do the right thing and understand the goal is to keep players in school longer. The Gophers did meet the maximum of five in one recruiting class, but they weren't supposed to this year. Monson said he was going to self-impose one of the scholarship limitations handed down by the NCAA this season but will push it back to next year. He said that way the Gophers would only have 12 on scholarship next year.