[Mick]

[quote author=FarmBoy link=topic=11692.msg113110#msg113110 date=1423845354]
29 signees? Yikes, do they forecast 5-10 attrition from each class for academic or behavioral issues?

Exactly what goes into handling the numbers over 25 is complicated.
It is typically a combination of:
a) enrolling guys in the spring which allows the option of counting them vs the previous class if spots are available.
b) academic casualties.
c) legal casualties.
d) telling kids their scholarship will be delayed (grey/blue/other color shirting). Sometimes this is agreed upon ahead of time, sometimes last minute.
e) convincing kids that their lifetime dream was actually to attend directional-state U, which has scholarships available.
f) just telling the kid they have no scholarship when they go to enroll in the fall.

Over the last several cycles Georgia has signed (counting backwards - according to Scout): 29, 21, 33, 19, 26.
That's an average of 25.6.
It's not completely impossible that all, or almost all, of these folks ended up on scholarship at UGa - but I doubt it.
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I imagine they find a way to get non productive players off the squad.  I notice every other year is a "light" year.

[Mick]

[quote author=FarmBoy link=topic=11692.msg113110#msg113110 date=1423845354]
29 signees? Yikes, do they forecast 5-10 attrition from each class for academic or behavioral issues?

Exactly what goes into handling the numbers over 25 is complicated.
It is typically a combination of:
a) enrolling guys in the spring which allows the option of counting them vs the previous class if spots are available.
b) academic casualties.
c) legal casualties.
d) telling kids their scholarship will be delayed (grey/blue/other color shirting). Sometimes this is agreed upon ahead of time, sometimes last minute.
e) convincing kids that their lifetime dream was actually to attend directional-state U, which has scholarships available.
f) just telling the kid they have no scholarship when they go to enroll in the fall.

Over the last several cycles Georgia has signed (counting backwards - according to Scout): 29, 21, 33, 19, 26.
That's an average of 25.6.
It's not completely impossible that all, or almost all, of these folks ended up on scholarship at UGa - but I doubt it.
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I imagine they find a way to get non productive players off the squad.  I notice every other year is a "light" year.