I may be wrong but I don’t see the transfer changes helping us much attracting transfers. Rule changes eliminated the advantage FCS schools had as transfer destinations for FBS players wanting to play immediately. The rules make it easier for someone to transfer from an FCS school but no difference for FBS transfers moving down, because they didn’t have to sit out before. . Those guys can now go to another FBS school and play right away. On the other hand our players can go to FBS and play right away now. So net result is we’ll lose more transfers and gain fewer over the long term. We’ve hardly ever had a player transfer from another FCS program and make an impact.

According to the huddle stats, he’s reasonably fast, not so much in the 40 as the 100. His bench press is pretty pathetic as listed, might be a typo. Pretty good vertical.
The bar is very high to get a scholarship.

Just for clarity I’m not talking about coaches not having played at all, but rather if they are position coaches did they play the position they coach.

Maybe those are school years and not seasons, one year at each place. It’s actually Victor Valley College..

I fear we have too many inexperienced coaches, some of whom have not had a lot of success as players at the position they coach. Maybe that doesn’t matter, maybe anyone can coach anything if they’ve been around the subject. Kind of like your math teacher doesn’t really need to be any good solving problems if she can present the lesson plan.
However, I think playing gives insight into subtleties about individual skills that might help the position players.

I hope they get an experienced receivers coach as a replacement. The program has replaced several departed experienced coaches with guys new to the role or new to this level of football.
Arceneaux was one of the more experienced recent hires.
We haven’t seen much productivity from young receivers aside from CJ Hutton, and maybe he was just ready to play. Some receivers who haven’t played much thus far are going to have to fill Vaughn and Harrell’s shoes.

South Dakota State was pretty close. Most teams aren’t physical enough to match up, but South Dakota State did.

From the NFL.com site:
“Any college player who has completed four years of college eligibility, as distinguished from those who had a redshirt year, will be considered eligible for the 2022 draft unless a player submits a request to not be considered for the draft to the league by Feb. 4, 2022”.
Thomas doesn’t need to declare.
Thomas has been with the team for six seasons, redshirting his first year and hardly missing a game in the five seasons he played. Declaring is just a publicity stunt.

Hawaii knew what they were getting, so it’s really the school that’s at fault. A clue was that Arizona State was willing to forfeit 12M to get rid of him after a few seasons with not horrendous results.

I don’t think they should either. It’s interesting that in the case of Hawaii and Reno, we see the two opposites, players leaving to get away from a coach and players transferring to follow a coach.

The new mobility for players is going to make certain styles of coaching obsolete. It’s not like guys enlist for the duration,

In the past declaring for the draft was newsworthy only when a player still had eligibility.

Compare Hawkins experience with Ploughs on his first time here. Cody has more experienced playing and coaching.
Being a coaches son means growing up in football. As a quarterback in Colorado he played for other coaches besides his father so he’s seen other perspectives; his offensive coordinator at Colorado went on the be head coach at Oregon and offensive coordinator for the Chicago Bears. He worked as a position coach here under Plough. I wouldn’t discount his knowledge of the game just because his Dad was head coach.

There is a clear difference in physicality between our team and the teams we need to beat. We had a great game plan and some breaks when we beat Tulsa. But when we play teams that are familiar with what we do it’s harder. Our team needs the ability to play some power football to make the rest work.

Cody was highly regarded recruit after being HS player of the year in Idaho and won two state championships, then played three seasons in a major conference, passed for over 3000 yards as a sophomore.. He’s been a receivers coach at Davis. On paper he’s well qualified for the job he has, Whether he can perform well in that job is to be determined.
Plough and Tim Keane who went to Boise from here, are criticized for a not very physical offensive line, and the immobile quarterback not being protected. Plough kind of raised expectations and didn’t live up to them. He was talking 50 points a game and couldn’t get 30.

Plough worked with all the QBs who got playing time, for several years. He owns some credit for their development or lack there of.
I don’t know if Cory Hawkins is a good coach or not. I think he is knowledgeable, based in his playing career, and coaching resume. I think it’s a lot to ask a first year coordinator to also coach rookie QBs as their position coach.That’s a lot of work for a guy who is new to both roles.

I’ve long been puzzled why we don’t get more transfers from UC campuses, but historically we’ve lost approximately as many guys to those schools as we’ve gained. And that included an era when transfers didn’t have to sit out if they transferred to FCS and did if they transferred to FBS. So why should we get more now they don’t have to sit a year to move to another FBS school? New transfer rule doesn’t make coming from Berkeley to Davis any easier, as far as I know.
Like I said I think we’ll get some transfers, us signing only two HS players points to more transfers on the hook. Looks like we’re losing two so we’re starting in a hole.

Not only in a bowl but favored in the Sagarin predictions.

PS - Sagarin has Tulsa higher ranked than Montana State but below North Dakota State, James Madison and South Dakota State. That was a good win for us.

You wrote:
What's the roster limit? We have a huge RFrosh group, as big as Hawks first group.

15 - Freshmen
36 - Redshirt Freshmen*
23 - Sophs
17 - Juniors
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13 - Seniors / Grads

Those limits are 110 players on the roster, 85 players on some sort of scholarship and 63 total scholarships to divide up.

The breakdown of classes based on eligibility is deceptive because freshmen can either have been recruited in 2020 or 2021, and redshirt freshmen span three years, 2019, 2020, and 2021. We have 10 current redshirt freshmen who will have been on campus for four years, before they start their junior year. Could be a situation where half of the 91 guys have completed enough units to graduate after the upcoming academic year. That’s an argument for bringing in young guys each year, so half your team doesn’t move on.

I was joking