eATMup-Reveille said:
Aggieair said:
AgBQ-00 said:
mAsS eXoDuS!!!!!!
This is the first year of the portal windows...
We have no idea about what types of numbers are normal and as stated before all programs are getting hit. Many are losing starters.
At this point all we can do is watch and learn. No need to get yourself so worked up you got to break out the lithium pills.
This is twice the amount of players we have had transfer out compared to each of the last 2 years, so you can't act like this is normal either.
So did those last 2 years have the type of quality freshman that had played this year? The answer would be obviously no. Does that influence some of those decisions to transfer? I don't know, but I don't see how it could not be a factor.
Except in the past 2 years, we haven't had a recruiting class this small in December. It's about being able to fill out the roster at this point and build depth. Putting all your eggs into the 2022 class basket just means the team will be absolutely horrendous after their junior year in 2024 without other action.
There's 62 scholarship players that haven't graduated/medically retired/transferred/declared yet.
Two of those 62 are still indefinitely suspended from the team (Marshall and Lucas).
Achane, Smith, and Robinson's status is still TBD as they were projected draft picks.
If those 5 depart, that brings us down to 57 scholarship players.
We're almost 2 weeks away from the first signing day, and only have 11 commits in the 2023 class (ranked #24) after having multiple decommits this year.
That would put us at 68. So we'd still need 17 more transfers or recruits to fill the roster.
Jimbo has only taken about 3 to 4 players total from the portal across the past two to three years, which is a cause for lack of optimism.