With the season now over, we are less than two months away from football signing day, 2015. And recruiting will be the focus of football operations and fan interest for the next several weeks. So, how many people can we sign? After Van Hooser was medically disqualified and Boutte left the team, I believe we had 83 players on scholarship. This includes Anthony Taylor, who may be still on a track scholarship. I simply don't know. It also includes Rob Kelley who may or may not be back due to academics.
Sixteen seniors are graduating, so we should have at least 18 slots available for 2015 at this point. Depending on the status of Taylor and Kelley, that could add two more. We have several more players entering their third and even fourth years at Tulane with hardly any playing time. Will they stick around to ride the bench another year? Who knows? Finally, we are almost assured of losing one or more players to academics, injury, or simply a desire to transfer for a myriad of reason. Historically, most of these happen after spring practice, during the summer, or just prior to fall camp. And we don't have any history of "betting on the come" regarding possible attrition. Regardless, I'd guess we have about 20 openings for 2015.
Of possible importance, I think we would be allowed to have up to three recruits join the team for the second semester this year to participate in the spring. That's a big advantage for a young guy but I've heard nothing to suggest any of our current commits are planning on an early arrival.
Roll Wave!!!
Sixteen seniors are graduating, so we should have at least 18 slots available for 2015 at this point. Depending on the status of Taylor and Kelley, that could add two more. We have several more players entering their third and even fourth years at Tulane with hardly any playing time. Will they stick around to ride the bench another year? Who knows? Finally, we are almost assured of losing one or more players to academics, injury, or simply a desire to transfer for a myriad of reason. Historically, most of these happen after spring practice, during the summer, or just prior to fall camp. And we don't have any history of "betting on the come" regarding possible attrition. Regardless, I'd guess we have about 20 openings for 2015.
Of possible importance, I think we would be allowed to have up to three recruits join the team for the second semester this year to participate in the spring. That's a big advantage for a young guy but I've heard nothing to suggest any of our current commits are planning on an early arrival.
Roll Wave!!!
