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Fair enough. I'm choosing to take whats given and make it work. In the offseason I did my homework, and by my analysis (which in reality means diddleyshiit) I came up with a number of 30 recruits coming in today through a full NLI cycle of profiling athletes, evaluating them and recruiting them, minimum, to get back on track for division 1A roster. That is exactly what happened, so I am happy. For me, still having 3 open scholarships is something positive to work with in this point of time in the year. I dont anticipate thst holding open tryouts in the spring to fond players is in Diaco's plan, and I am ok with that.
I'll write again, without a doubt the tallest and physically biggest class we've had, but they need to be fast. We need team speed.
It appears for you that we are numbers deficient in the class. I dont think so. I see the potential for one of the most competitive fall camps in years.
Listen, if he simply wasn't able to fill the spots given the two late defections, fine. I can live with that, even if it's a bit surprising given the available playing time. If he made the call that we didn't have anyone else that warranted a scholarship, that's his call. From my perspective, recruiting is an inexact science, especially at this level -- bring in as many people as you can and see who can play.
Re: size, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't at least a little concerned that "size" sounds like "prototypes" and we just brought in a bunch of big, slow guys. We won't know until they see the field. Given the choice between speed and size, I take speed every time.