Go back and tell me the last year that we redshirted everyone, or even half of our incoming freshman class, and we'll talk.
Fact is we sign more than twenty every year because fourth and fifth year players are becoming more and more scarce - due to all of the various types of attrition you mentioned. And when you have a staff that is conservative in nature, (and lord knows ours is) it exacerbates the problem because the conservative play calling keeps games closer than they have to be, so less mop up duty for the youngsters. In addition, our staff seems to set a higher standard of (practice?) excellence before the players have earned enough "trust" to see the field. Your "relatively veteran team" may be so in terms of time spent on campus, but not when it comes to minutes spent on the field. --- On Tue, 10/12/10, John Vega <[email protected]> wrote: On Oct 12, 2010, at 11:20 AM, Steve McKibben wrote: If you have 85 scholarship players, 50 underclassmen is a lot. 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 Freshmen18.5 Redshirt Freshmen17 Redshirt Sophomores 15.5 Redshirt Juniors14 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. -- 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
