It’s not quite true that he’s never had a transfer. He had two guys leave as grad transfers (both went to lower levels), and he had a little-used sophomore that transferred the same year (also went to a lower level). The grad transfers were regular transfers he had brought in in to sit out during his first year at URI. They moved on as the talent upgrade happened.
What is true is that he’s never lost a guy to transfer that he didn’t want to. URI was also really limited his first years there because of APR concerns, so there was a reason to limit player movement. He’ll be incredibly honest with the returning guys, but he’s also not going to fundamentally change who he is as a coach and teacher.
Ft record, I never said he'd pull anybodies scholarship deliberately. He won't. He'd just tell guys they aren't going to play.
We got off on a tangent, my original post said: you recruit as if you have multiple scholarships avaible. If enough free up, you take everybody, if not you go w highest priority recruits.
I purposefully left aside
how they free up. That's totally independent of the recruiting side. They might not free up for whatever reason, but you have to act as if they will so you aren't scrambling