Juco Recruiting (Question)

[vinniew_11]

With the uptick of Juco recruitment and emphasis, what kind of detriment does it have to your normal HS recruit? And why do we feel the reason is we are more focused on JC players? Can't class balances be maintained by Gray and Red shirts, early graduation and normal attrition?

 

[Buffnik]

Current roster is as follows:

Seniors: 17
Juniors: 22
Sophs: 13
Frosh: 17 redshirt/ 19 true

From that, we'll have attrition of 3 or more before the season starts. I suspect that we'll have a frosh or 2 enroll in January as greyshirts. Lang and Paige seem the most likely candidates.

Within those sophs, we have 2 who might very well redshirt this year with Huntley and George. We have 2 juniors who might redshirt in Hamilton and Trego, but that's far from certain.

So when you look at our 2018 team, we're slotted for 13 juniors and possibly as few as 11. With sophomores, we'll have at least 17 and probably over 20 after redshirting of a soph or two and a true frosh or more who plays. After greyshirts and guys who play as true frosh, we're still looking at 15 or more redshirt freshmen in 2018.

Where that leaves us is that to balance the roster, the 2018 recruiting class is the year to take 4-6 JUCOs in order to bring up the numbers in the 2018 sophomore class while signing 15ish true freshmen. Once that's been done, we're probably looking at 2-3 JUCOs a year to fill needs going forward.

I don't believe that this has a negative impact on high school recruiting in any way other than it reducing numbers a bit.

Assuming the above with attrition, the 2018 roster should look something like this:

Seniors: 18
Juniors: 16
Sophs: 19
Frosh: 15 redshirt / 17 true (including 2 greyshirts)

 

[Trufflesauce]

Current roster is as follows:

Seniors: 17
Juniors: 22
Sophs: 13
Frosh: 17 redshirt/ 19 true

From that, we'll have attrition of 3 or more before the season starts. I suspect that we'll have a frosh or 2 enroll in January as greyshirts. Lang and Paige seem the most likely candidates.

Within those sophs, we have 2 who might very well redshirt this year with Huntley and George. We have 2 juniors who might redshirt in Hamilton and Trego, but that's far from certain.

So when you look at our 2018 team, we're slotted for 13 juniors and possibly as few as 11. With sophomores, we'll have at least 17 and probably over 20 after redshirting of a soph or two and a true frosh or more who plays. After greyshirts and guys who play as true frosh, we're still looking at 15 or more redshirt freshmen in 2018.

Where that leaves us is that to balance the roster, the 2018 recruiting class is the year to take 4-6 JUCOs in order to bring up the numbers in the 2018 sophomore class while signing 15ish true freshmen. Once that's been done, we're probably looking at 2-3 JUCOs a year to fill needs going forward.

I don't believe that this has a negative impact on high school recruiting in any way other than it reducing numbers a bit.

Assuming the above with attrition, the 2018 roster should look something like this:

Seniors: 18
Juniors: 16
Sophs: 19
Frosh: 15 redshirt / 17 true (including 2 greyshirts)

Thanks for that explanation. Why do you think Terrance Lang is likely to grayshirt?

 

[8Jah]

Why JUCO? I think it is our strategy to take JUCO defensive linemen. Not many power5-ready NTs coming out of high school. Much easier to assess how big an athletic a DL is at 20 than at 17.

 

[Duff Man]

We are not only recruiting NTs for the DL.

 

[Buffnik]

Thanks for that explanation. Why do you think Terrance Lang is likely to grayshirt?

Only because he needed to improve his qualifying academic stuff. It was always an open question on whether he'd have all those ducks in a row by August or whether we'd be looking at January.

 

[buffaholic]

Not to mention we are currently over-subscribed and he's physically a ways from being a contender.

 

[Medford M.]

Because of the Juco D linemen we are after are bona fide blue chippers.