The question isn't how many scholarships we have now, but how many we will have come signing day - which nobody can know.
Scholarships are awarded on a year by year basis. If necessary, Les can withhold a scholarship from a player to make the 85. Occasionally walk-ons have been given scholarships because they were available. Those don't have to be renewed if enough scholarships are not available. Sometimes a veteran player with no hope of playing time here is advised that he might want to find some greener pastures in Division I-AA. Just like last summer when LSU was also oversigned and Les quickly dismissed five players for misbehavior . . . this is probably not a good year to get into Les' doghouse.
I dunno Parso. I think I essentially understand what you mean but it'd seem like the coaches have to operate within some projected numbers given the info they have about players, etc. We can't just go out on a shopping spree and then cross our fingers when LOI day rolls around and hope the numbers fall into place can we? Along those lines, I'd say the number we have now is of significance in projecting the number we will have on signing day and also of significance in pursuing recruits.
Only bama can do that, and of course, it's not our business how they do that, and we don't really want to know anyway. :grin:
It's harder than that. Its about how many scholarships we anticipate having open the following August when scholarships are awarded and the 85/25 is counted. We have to plan for normal attrition.
parso this how i got we oversigned 7, at national signing day, counting the 26 scholarships we gave out we were at 92. were are now at 86. we need to loose one more by august. i hear duplesses could greyshirt or corbin get a medical. then we would be at 85. so i figure we would do the same this year. 7 over + 13 seniors= 20 scholarships.
Two more names to the list that may free up some more space for this recruiting class. RP (No explanation needed) Corbin (Medical Hardship) Holmes (Graduate degree program at Stephen F. Austin) Allen (Transferred to A&M) Lott? (Transferred, Where?) Snyder (Medical Hardship, not sure if he is counted or not?) Breaux Duplessis Heard that Delvin Breaux has not recovered from his neck injury in HS and will also take a medical hardship and Duplessis will take a grey shirt. Faulk commits to play at LSU- NOLA.com
Breaux was from a couple classes back. I was under the impression he never counted against the 85 limit because he was never cleared to play. Duplessis doesn't help our number situation for this year's class because he'll count against that w/ a grayshirt.
