On Oct 12, 2010, at 11:20 AM, Steve McKibben wrote:
If you have 85 scholarship players, 50 underclassmen is a lot.
This math just doesn't seem right.
If you sign 20 players every class, redshirt everyone, and lost only
1.5 players each year due to transfers, grades, stolen computers and
the ilk, your classes stack out as follows:
20 True Freshmen
18.5 Redshirt Freshmen
17 Redshirt Sophomores
15.5 Redshirt Juniors
14 Redshirt Seniors
Total: 85, of which 55 are Freshmen and Sophomores.
That would mean that a team with only 50 underclassmen is a
relatively veteran team.
The current trend towards playing more true freshmen, skews some of
the other numbers higher, but that is more than balanced by early NFL
entrants and the reality that more than one and a half players leave
UF every year due to transfers, grades, plice problems, etc.
This sounds like an excuse. The reality is that we returned 4 out of
5 linemen from one of the top lines in college football and a QB that
was Gatorade National Player of the Year, has been in the system for
3.5 years, and was 54 of 76 with 10 TDs and one INT coming in to this
season.
We were set up for a Peter Tom Willis-type season with a veteran
experienced line and QB. Now it is a rebuilding year because we lost
Tebow?
-Zeb
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