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Because of COVID-19, scholarship numbers are a royal mess, and technically, almost anyone can come back.  That being said:
There are 59 scholarship freshmen, sophomores, or juniors on the roster, of which only Kyu Blu Kelly is at any risk for an early departure.  That leaves up to 26 scholarships available (since we now apparently do occasionally do early enrollment and 1 player could enroll counting to the 2021 limit).

In practice, I think we would take the following players back, assuming they didn't declare for the NFL (Booker) or decide they were done with football or enter the transfer portal: Michael Wilson, Brycen Tremayne, Thomas Booker, Ricky Miezan, Jacob Magnum-Farrar, Kendall Williamson.

That could potentially get us down to 20 scholarship spots if everyone comes back, or 22 if Kelly and Booker go pro.  Our class is currently at 20, would be 21 with Bailey and 22 with Bailey plus a WR.  Bob can probably remind me if LDS missions (either returning from the class of 2020 or going out) will affect that math.

To me the question is not whether a 4th DL will mean we have to sacrifice a wide receiver in the class of 22; the question is whether if everyone wants to come back, and if they do, whether we would tell them sorry, we are full.

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[BostonCard]

Because of COVID-19, scholarship numbers are a royal mess, and technically, almost anyone can come back.  That being said:
There are 59 scholarship freshmen, sophomores, or juniors on the roster, of which only Kyu Blu Kelly is at any risk for an early departure.  That leaves up to 26 scholarships available (since we now apparently do occasionally do early enrollment and 1 player could enroll counting to the 2021 limit).

In practice, I think we would take the following players back, assuming they didn't declare for the NFL (Booker) or decide they were done with football or enter the transfer portal: Michael Wilson, Brycen Tremayne, Thomas Booker, Ricky Miezan, Jacob Magnum-Farrar, Kendall Williamson.

That could potentially get us down to 20 scholarship spots if everyone comes back, or 22 if Kelly and Booker go pro.  Our class is currently at 20, would be 21 with Bailey and 22 with Bailey plus a WR.  Bob can probably remind me if LDS missions (either returning from the class of 2020 or going out) will affect that math.

To me the question is not whether a 4th DL will mean we have to sacrifice a wide receiver in the class of 22; the question is whether if everyone wants to come back, and if they do, whether we would tell them sorry, we are full.

BC