The Bodda Getta

Bryan, I count 62 scholarship players on our current roster. Is that what you get? We've got 3 JC players enrolled and 2 more committed which means we could sign 18 additional players on Feb 6th which would give us a total of 23 new players - 5 JC and 18 HS. That would bring us up to 85.

If there are additional drop offs during the the rest of this school year we could sign a few more. The 3 enrolled could count back to last year and we could sign 25 on Feb 6th which would be a total of 28 new players. 5 players on the current roster would have to leave in order for that to be possible. Do I have the numbers right?

Seastrunk hasn't turned out to be a big flop, and he would have committed to Auburn early if he could have. Auburn stopped recruiting him (his own words). He got tangled up with a seedy street agent.

PM warned of the defections that we could expect. I guess Gus and Co. will have to get the best that they can, this year, and work on the upper classmen - to "coach 'em up". I'm assuming that we keep some of the talent it appeared we garnered (no pun) over the Chizic Era. Next year, we will be playing with mostly the Trooper/Luper guys (and some of Malzahn's guys). After next year (7-6) would be pretty good the team will start to be the afore mentioned "Gus Bus". We may find that those 8-5 years were not so bad. I am hopeful, but must be realistic about our prospects. Long term, this staff will get results or know the reason why.