Why 26?
Was there a reason to only get 26 guys in this class? I went back to some of the other threads and didn't see any reasoning, but I am wondering if I missed something.
One thought that occurred to me is that maybe we have two silent commits from Sean Parker and someone else. In that case, we would only publicly take commitments from 26 recruits and still have room for the 2 silent commits.
Thoughts?
January 22nd, 2010 at 6:19 PM ^
Maybe two walk-ons are getting schollies? Leach and Kovacs?
January 22nd, 2010 at 6:25 PM ^
the NCAA allows us to give 'silent' scholarships. This isn't USC afterall.
January 22nd, 2010 at 6:28 PM ^
Because 25 is too few while 27 is too many.
January 22nd, 2010 at 6:28 PM ^
By August, you must be down to 25. We can back-date one to last year. That makes 26 we can sign this year (and assumes we won't do the sleazy thing where we sign more knowing some won't make it through the clearinghouse).
January 22nd, 2010 at 6:31 PM ^
is fruitless. We have been burned before. This late in the game, if a recruit is still looking around, he or she(Katie Hnida, ftw) hasn't made up their mind. Silent commits are reasonable in November, not mid-January.
January 22nd, 2010 at 6:33 PM ^
I don't think RR would publicly say the class size was 26 if it was really 28 with two silent commits. It is more likely that 26 is the number of scholarships he can offer this class due to exiting seniors, other attrition, and scholarship re-distributions (i.e. Leach, Kovacs potential) from this year.
January 22nd, 2010 at 6:33 PM ^
The NCAA rule is 25 new scholarship athletes by the fall. If for some reason we got commitments from more than one more, say Parker AND Knight, that would indicate to me that RichRod knows about another non-qualifying commitment who hasn't been revealed to the public.
January 22nd, 2010 at 6:38 PM ^
a greyshirt, sketchy as it seems.
January 22nd, 2010 at 6:37 PM ^
but we've had 5 or 6 early enrollees that have joined the 2009-2010 school year, and thus their scholies can count towards last years class. This gives us more than 25, up to as many as 28.
January 22nd, 2010 at 8:25 PM ^
up to the amount of scholarships you were under 85 the previous season. last season we had 84 scholarship players after some walk-ons were given schollies. as a result we could only backlog one early enrollee. this is why we can sign 26 players
January 22nd, 2010 at 6:41 PM ^
one of the guys over at Rivals says that after the staff had their various discussions with fifth years and walk-ons, the returning number of scholarship players is 59. That's why they can only sign 26. Is it possible to make room for more? I'm sure they'd find a way for the right people, but as of right now they are saying there are 59 returning.
It's possible they're mistaken but they're running with that now.
January 22nd, 2010 at 11:04 PM ^
Its actually 47.5
January 23rd, 2010 at 8:31 AM ^
In a way, this is unfortunate: Because we had to use walk-ons last year to actually start games, those guys deserve scholarships. If we had enough scholarship players who were capable of playing, then we wouldn't be in this situation. Guys like Leach and Kovacs wouldn't be taking up scholarships and we could sign Parker AND Dorsey AND Knight without issue. This is one big way that the attrition over the past couple years has hurt us.
Now, this situation is fortunate for guys like Kovacs and Leach. If they were riding the bench like most walk-ons, they probably wouldn't have scholarships. So it's good for them that they're getting a free education. They worked hard for it, so they deserve it.