Junction

Sorry new to the board here and I havent seen this confirmed anywhere else.
Is there a way to dig that thread up?

Hope its true because we definitely need the room.

The first SEC signin limit rule a few years ago stated you could sign 28 max. The updates rule says there is a hard limit of 25 per class and early enrollees can count back to fill in the previous class up to 25 guys and there is no limit on how many early enrollees you can have as long as it doesn't put the previous class over 25. The rules don't mention transfers from other D 1 programs so Williams and Carson do not count in those numbers either.

Where does it "clearly" say that?

See, this is how I always interpreted it.

Sorry, I was stuck on the old rules. Aggie86 has it right.

There is a strict cap of 25 per year, but there seems to be no rules on how many can back count on a previous class.

Actually, to clarify, there is a rule. If a recruit fails to qualify, he still counts towards that class.
So in the case of Ed Ray, he would still count and our 2012 class is still at 19 LOIs.

But again, that doesn't matter whether it's Big 12 or SEC. There is no SEC rule saying you can only have 3 maximum back counting. The SEC rule simply says 25 per year, hard count. We took 19 in 2012, and thus could still take 6 more. Doesn't matter if we were in our 10th year in the SEC, that would be the same.

31 one is already a huge class. Lets all just assume that's the max we can take and forget about it. We've never had a class that big and we probably wouldn't be able to find more than 6 midterm enrollees even if we could take more.

I agree 31 is huge and would be hard to pull off, but I think we could actually get 6 midterms.

I believe Sezer, Points, Wade, and one more are already planning on midterming. JUCO flowers is a midterm as well if we get him.

The bigger obstacle IMO is the 85 man limit. That is going to require heavy attrition to get 31.

I'm not concerned with the 85 in the least. That always works out, especially under new coaching staffs. We have only 78 or 79 ships currently, with 16 seniors. That already gives us about 23 to 24. Normal attrition is 4-5 per year putting us up to 28 or more. Under the first year of a coaching change, there is normally more attrition. We can take 31 and fit them in pretty easily IMO.

Everyone keeps saying we can have up to 6 early enrollees based on last year only taking 19 LOI's. Didn't 2012's class include 3 early enrollees (Davis, Pope & Jacobs) that would count against the 2011 class (22 LOI's that year)?

EE/JUCO:
Toby (DT)
Flowers (LB)
Brown (OL)

That makes 6 EE's w/ Points, Wade, and Sezer.

Then there's 5 ships left for:

Samples
Prevot
Savage
Mitchell/Manning
Abbington

I think we get either Mitchell/Manning but not both.

If we don't get Mitchell OR Manning, OR we lost Griffin, we'll pull in Luper (assuming no RSJ). If Davis is a strong enough grade risk, we'll also get Washington.