As my close personal friend Sid would say "All you 'geniuses' who think that the 2012 recruiting class is magically going to end up with the right number you might want to read the following quotes from MV at his new recruit forum:"
“Honestly, I don't know. Probably won't until NSD. I feel like additional recruits will find new homes and a number of current players will transfer out at the end of Spring. As it stands now, Kill would have to petition the B1G office in order to oversign by a max of three, and he'd need to provide legitimate reasons why.”
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“Alright, so I did some arithmetic this AM:
We had 24 prospects actually enroll from the class of 2011, four of which were midyear transfers/early enrollees though only three could be counted back to the class of 2010.
We have 27 commits for the 2012 class, though Anyanwu is a likely grayshirt and would count against the 2013 class. So we'd enroll 26 and we have 8 midyear guys, four of which could count back to 2011 (24-3=21). That leaves us with 22 spots in the 2012 class, room enough for a max of 3 additional recruits if we so choose.
The problem is, we have only 25 scholarships "available" given the current players on scholly, which doesn't include walk-ons like Austin Hahn or Aaron Hill who allegedly received scholarships from Brew but it's unclear/unknown whether they're still on scholarship. If they sign a max of three more players, given the math above, they'd be at 89 scholarships on the roster and we know that can't happen at all during the fall and would require a waiver from the Big Ten just to be able to do so on Feb 1st.
Bottom line, someone has to be dropping from this class or transferring/flunking out from the current roster, or some combination of both. The math just doesn't add up otherwise.”
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Since MV seems to be uncertain how this is all going to work out, contrary to the rest of you I don’t believe the coaches know exactly how this is going to fit together. Therefore it must be done with mirrors and magic.
“Honestly, I don't know. Probably won't until NSD. I feel like additional recruits will find new homes and a number of current players will transfer out at the end of Spring. As it stands now, Kill would have to petition the B1G office in order to oversign by a max of three, and he'd need to provide legitimate reasons why.”
………..
“Alright, so I did some arithmetic this AM:
We had 24 prospects actually enroll from the class of 2011, four of which were midyear transfers/early enrollees though only three could be counted back to the class of 2010.
We have 27 commits for the 2012 class, though Anyanwu is a likely grayshirt and would count against the 2013 class. So we'd enroll 26 and we have 8 midyear guys, four of which could count back to 2011 (24-3=21). That leaves us with 22 spots in the 2012 class, room enough for a max of 3 additional recruits if we so choose.
The problem is, we have only 25 scholarships "available" given the current players on scholly, which doesn't include walk-ons like Austin Hahn or Aaron Hill who allegedly received scholarships from Brew but it's unclear/unknown whether they're still on scholarship. If they sign a max of three more players, given the math above, they'd be at 89 scholarships on the roster and we know that can't happen at all during the fall and would require a waiver from the Big Ten just to be able to do so on Feb 1st.
Bottom line, someone has to be dropping from this class or transferring/flunking out from the current roster, or some combination of both. The math just doesn't add up otherwise.”
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Since MV seems to be uncertain how this is all going to work out, contrary to the rest of you I don’t believe the coaches know exactly how this is going to fit together. Therefore it must be done with mirrors and magic.
