If you have 85 scholarship players, 50 underclassmen is a lot. And it's also the price you pay for success, as upperclassmen tend to stay less than the maximum of five years - the very best ones now rarely stay past three.
Couple that with our staff's unwillingness to give players a chance to play until they've "earned their trust" and it follows that whenever you have your best juniors and seniors leave, you will be left with a lot of players with limited experience. And that's where we're at right now. John Vega wrote: On Oct 11, 2010, at 10:38 PM, Dave Rice wrote: there are well over 50 redshirt sophomores on down to pure freshmen on the team and a bunch are playing a lot. It’s like putting the underclassmen up against a varsity every game. If you sign an average of 20 players every year and redshirt most of your signees, you will always have 50 to 60 Freshmen and Sophomores. Seems average, not young. -- GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions 2008 National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us
