Scholarship numbers might be tighter than we initially thought..

So now that we have a little bit better picture of who is staying/leaving, I ran some numbers. I can't guarantee that this is all 100% accurate because even figuring out exactly who is on scholarship is not as easy as one would think. That said, here's what I came up with..

Scholarship Players Returning + Commits (80)







Scholarship Players Leaving (22)



Scholarship Status TBD (7)



Now, I'll be the first to admit that there may be errors here. So please feel free to correct me if any of this looks incorrect. But assuming my numbers are correct, that means we have:

- 56 scholarship players returning.
- 24 high school recruits or transfers signed.
- 80 total returning, or 77 if all 3 of my "assumed" guys turn out to be wrong.
- Call it 77-80 2022 scholarships that are "likely."

- Another 7 scholarship players who are TBD.. 3 of them are in the portal, 2 are unclear on whether they are returning, and 1 (Pig Cage) might be a candidate for a walk on scholarship.
- Call it 7 more 2022 scholarships that are "possible."

- Another 8 signing spots, given the one-year blanket waiver.
- Call it 8 more 2022 scholarship offers that are "available."

Even if all of my "assumed" guys who I show coming back are wrong and all of my "TBD" guys leave, that still puts you at 77 plus 10 available spots. With the self-imposed penalties from 2020, our scholarship cap for 2022 is 81 total.

Am I crazy, or are we basically looking at a full roster next year? It's kind of blowing my mind to be honest but as far as I can tell it looks legit.

EDIT w/ the following changes:
- Added the 4 walk ons awarded in 2021.
- Moved Moffitt to "leaving."
- Added Wingo and Shorts.
- Added the "class" in parenthesis for transfers. Note that this is purely based on what year they started college, not their actual eligibility. If a player started college in 2019, I counted them as a junior in their third year (2019, 2020, 2021). However, they are probably only a SO or maybe even a RS-FR for eligibility purposes, between the COVID year and any redshirts they have received. I did not vet each transfer player's actual eligibility.