One of the things I find far more exciting about College football than the NFL is the turnover. Not the delicious breakfast pastry and I don’t mean the pics and fumbles that killed UB this season. I am referring, of course, to the fact that with very rare exceptions a university only gets four years out of their players. Of course this hurts mid majors more than the AQ schools but like death, graduation comes for all.
A good recruiter is like a good chess player, you’re never really worried about the next move because, if you’re any good, you’ve already thought about the upcoming move two or more moves ago. If you wait until you’re about to lose a player (Lets Kendrick Hawkins for example) unless you catch lightning in a bottle you are not going to find a high school senior who can replace him straight away. Freshman football players tend to bulk out, and they tend to need time to adjust to the new speed and power that they are going to face.
So instead of just looking at stars, or who UB will lose this season I’m going to go over position for position, where we will be in 2010, and 2011… In 2010 UB has 17 Scholarships, 12 are already handed out
