2011 Scholarships

Submitted by BlueCrusade on

Hey guys I was just wondering about the scholarship situation for 2011.  Is 21 scholarships the correct number?  I have also heard 23, but not sure where that number comes from. I can get to 21, but that is with Woolfolk's scholarship and I'm sure he will get one next year if he is able to come back so that would put the number at 20.

Any help would be appreciated.

WolvinLA2

September 22nd, 2010 at 5:32 PM ^

It will start to matter very soon.  We have 10 guys already committed.  We could very easily see quite a few more commits within the next month.  Since our stretch of transfers and very late non-qualifiers is an anomoly, whatever the number is now is unlikely to change (or at least much at all) within the next month and a half. 

If you don't care, that's fine.  But for the people who do, I think it matters now.

Blue_in_Cleveland

September 22nd, 2010 at 11:19 PM ^

If you count Kinard, we already have 11 commits for next year. Assuming all 5th year players and Woolfolk return and former walk ons Kovacs and Grady are still on scholarship next year the number of available scholarships currently available for new bodies next season is 19. So we are looking at 8 spots left, assuming every current commit qualifies and signs. There is a lot of assuming going on here, and there very well could be a few more spots that open up by signing day.

 

Edit: I just saw on the depth chart by class that Leach is considered to be on scholarship, so if he returns on scholarship next year then we are down to 18 spots available for the 2011 recruiting class.

BlackEvanDown

September 22nd, 2010 at 5:39 PM ^

Looking at the Depth Chart, I count 18 available scholarships available if one is allocated each to Grady, Leach, and Kovacs and Woolfolk gets another year.

If a scholarship is not provided to each of the walk-ons (Grady, Leach, Kovacs), then I count 21 available.

FGB

September 22nd, 2010 at 6:00 PM ^

are either Kovacs and Grady considered "walk ons" who could conceivably not be offered a scholarship for the year? Am I correct that "Walk on" is merely a term of art for someone not offered a scholarship when they first enrolled at Michigan?

I'm not trying to be a pedant, but I believe for any athlete a scholarship offer is a year to year thing anyway. Obviously the expectation/promise is that they will get one each year, but isn't the expectation the same with Kovacs and Grady right now, such that we shouldn't even consider them "walk ons" in the sense that they might not receive a scholarship?

TheOracle6

September 22nd, 2010 at 5:50 PM ^

I believe once this class is finished it is going to be the best class of the RR era.  This class is going to also go a long way in making the defense into a dominant force. I believe the number is 21.