Will we have enough players to field a team?

I want to win this game for the sole reason that it counts. It shouldn't; bowl games are nothing but exhibition games now. Shouldn't carry any more weight than a spring training major league baseball game. Coaches don't even care if they win any of those.

 

It would have to be in a lower tier.

 

This would do the trick for me... hope Napier makes it happen.

 

Posted this in another thread and this makes sense now that you look at it:

I was looking at our 19 and 20 recruiting cycle commits and see A LOT of potential attrition and attrition that already happened. If you look at those two years, NO WONDER we had to play so many 1st and 2nd year players this year.

gone from 2019 class one way or another (no NFL draft aka Elam):

Steele
Bogle
Diabate
Hopper
Kimbrough
Jalen Jones
Dionte Marks
Jesiah Pierre
Hammond (never made it to campus)
Wardrick Wilson
Whittemore (during the season)
Arjai Henderson (never made it campus)

2020:

Rogers
Walker
Braun (during the season)
McDaniel
Goods
Graham
Mincey
Johnnie Brown (never made it campus)

 

If the only purpose the bowl game serves is to give the staff a good look at the young players that remain, then it will still have been of some use. The extra practice won't hurt player development either. It's all about the future now. This season is, for all intents and purposes, a done deal. A win or a loss in a minor bowl game won't make much difference one way or the other. JMHO.

 

Lots of delusional kids and their delusional parents/cronies/handlers end up awfully disappointed when they’re left without a chair as the music stops.

Happens every year. Then the next generation thinks it’ll never happen to them, rinse and repeat.

 

He may be back. We will see

 

Used to be an exhibition game where the stats don’t even count. Only in the last 15-20 years that we kept stats for the players in bowl

 

Even if we don't, we'll find a way to win!

 

Weird considering nfl cuts at 53.

 

I think the minimum was 53 and it was during covid. I’m not seeing any minimums here under squad sizes (pg 20).

https://a.espncdn.com/sec/media/2022/Commissioner's Regulations - Football.pdf

 

The article I saw it in was from this year. Remember the FAMU game against NC? They were going to cancel it because FAMU didn't have enough eligible players.

 

I have to check to see if the NCAA has any minimums.

 

I went back and the article stated FCS rules that have them at 63 players max. So they would have been down to 40 players.
And it also mentioned the FBS covid safety guideline of 53.

 

Yea, the covid thing was an SEC clarification to allow teams to reschedule.

 

That's what I was thinking it seemed like, too. I know they will never go away because there are profits involved for companies, schools, leagues, coaches, and players. But, at least call them what they are (or used to be) - a casual exhibition. Don't even count individual or team stats.

 

In the future how will coaches build a team if there's so much turnover every year? Guys leave for more playing time , NIL, other reasons. Opportunity to play for a true contender will cause good players transfer.Where does it all end. NOT GOOD FOR COLLEGE FOOTBALL!!!!

 

I don’t think it will get anymore wide open than it is this year. As these guys enter the portal and not find a suitable destination or left without a scholarship, they may start to take the decision to transfer more seriously.

 

I’m prepared for scenarios ranging highly promising to (just in case) supremely disappointing.

 

It would be the first back to back losing seasons since 1978-79.