Chuck Landon said on the radio Wednesday that we could only sign 2 JC's since a scholarship would go to Ahmad Bradshaw for the spring, so we couldn't have gotten Degunduro AND Barnes AND Taylor. I assumed that had to do with the limit of 80 for this academic year, but maybe it has to do with the 2004 recruiting limit of 20. In the article in anoter thread below about McClain, he says by graduating in time to start school in the second semester he counts against 2004, not 2005.
We signed 14 new eligible players who definitely counted in 2004: G. Williams, Spann, Legursky, Bragg, Parkhurst, El-Amin, Biagi, Kitchens, Kaminski, Moravec, Hoskins, Wright, M. Smith and Merritt.
We put 3 returning guys on scholarship who counted against 2004: Albin, Bessolo and B. Morris.
Then there's Fitzgerald, who signed with the 2003 class and enrolled in Jan 2004 - I thought he counted against 2004 but maybe not.
Then there's Chris Hawkins - I'm not sure he counts against a recruiting class limit or not.
Given all this, my best guess is that the 2 JUCO's (if Dagunduro ends up at Marshall) count against 2004 and Bradshaw will count against 2005 like Albin, Bessolo and Morris did against 2004.
My point (and I do have one) is that if the 2 JC's count against 2004, then we still have 24 to give that count against 2005 (25 - 1 for Bradshaw). I have said before that the NQ's in school now who qualify and are put on scholarship in 2005 will also count against the 2005 limit. From what we know now that could be as many as 8 (Bush, Houston, Ratliff, Filer, Lindsey, Leath, Goins, Gamble).
Anybody else have $.02 to throw in or am I in my own little universe here?
We signed 14 new eligible players who definitely counted in 2004: G. Williams, Spann, Legursky, Bragg, Parkhurst, El-Amin, Biagi, Kitchens, Kaminski, Moravec, Hoskins, Wright, M. Smith and Merritt.
We put 3 returning guys on scholarship who counted against 2004: Albin, Bessolo and B. Morris.
Then there's Fitzgerald, who signed with the 2003 class and enrolled in Jan 2004 - I thought he counted against 2004 but maybe not.
Then there's Chris Hawkins - I'm not sure he counts against a recruiting class limit or not.
Given all this, my best guess is that the 2 JUCO's (if Dagunduro ends up at Marshall) count against 2004 and Bradshaw will count against 2005 like Albin, Bessolo and Morris did against 2004.
My point (and I do have one) is that if the 2 JC's count against 2004, then we still have 24 to give that count against 2005 (25 - 1 for Bradshaw). I have said before that the NQ's in school now who qualify and are put on scholarship in 2005 will also count against the 2005 limit. From what we know now that could be as many as 8 (Bush, Houston, Ratliff, Filer, Lindsey, Leath, Goins, Gamble).
Anybody else have $.02 to throw in or am I in my own little universe here?
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- Yogi Berra
- Yogi Berra
