Isaiah Bell Leaves Program

was about to make the same comment.  That was really a star crossed defensive recruiting class.

A Masterful post.

While his departure does technically open up another scholarship for Brady Hoke's monster 2013 class, he was one of the guys I was assuming would not return for a fifth year. It was already built into 20 that is the no-attrition baseline.

It was already assumed he was out when Brian made his projections. No, they'll still take two and leave a spot open for Levenberry.

I was excited about him too as a very athletic LB since he came in as a safety.  It was very strange seeing him moved from safety to LB then to possibly playing on the line.  

I think it gives a reference to the number of scholarships that would typically be used up for each position.  So QB 3 + 0 means we have 3 scholarship QBs, and we would like 3 scholarship QBs.  RB 7 - 1 means we have 7 scholarship RBs, but we would normally have 8 for depth.  And at the bottom, the total is 83 - 2, meaning that we have 85 scholarships available, but are only using 83 (a + greater than 0 would indicate we're using more scholarships than is typical at that position).

I now want a cheesy gordita crunch

There is a NCAA mandated limit of kids you can have in fall camp, which happens to be 105.

every single player you recruit should see at least special teams at some point in his career.

This was a whiff of major proportions.

Mike Jones is the only other redshirt junior who hasn't played significantly.

The other redshirt juniors are Toussaint, Gallon, Schofield, Lewan, Washington, Cam Gordon, Thomas Gordon, and Brendan Gibbons.

Brunette girls.

I actually think that raises a potentially interesting question: If Wile replaces Gibbons (and that's a big if) as the regular place-kicker, is there any chance that Gibbons doesn't get his 5th year?  One might think that being the starter for 2+ years gets him the 5th year just out of loyalty, but if he's not going to play, how much pressure would there be to free up the spot?  While I'm OK with the idea of not giving 5th years in general, I don't know how I'd feel in this particular case.

This is very different than"St. Sabaning" someone. All this means is that he wasn't good enough to play. He's still on the team and still on scholarship. But if you aren't getting it done on the field, the coaches don't have to play you. Had he decided to stay, he would have kept his scholarship for four years. And he only needs to sit out a year if he transfers to an FBS school, which is unikely.

All 85 scholarships must be used.  I would imagine Brink would get one, and you might look at long snappers for the other scholarships (Jareth Glanda, perhaps) or a coverage guy like Floyd Simmons.