The Jackal wrote: ↑Fri Jul 26, 2024 9:34 am
apaladin wrote: ↑Thu Jul 25, 2024 11:30 am
ETSU could be a darkhorse. New Coach brought half his former team with him plus add in transfers etc.
With transfer rules, it's hard to predict who is going to be what each season because coaches can essentially remake their roster every season.
Now, I think I've seen enough at the FCS level to come to the conclusion that
Furman's method of recruit, develop, retain is more likely a successful approach than trying to renovate your roster each season with transfer players.
Samford Football 2024 will be a good test of this hypothesis.
They clearly made a program decision to pursue the opposite of FU’s approach and brought in about 40 transfers before ‘22 and they were a better Team.
They brought in another 40 or so before ‘23 and they went backward.
This year they have brought in a few fewer - about 30 or so (guesstimate only - haven’t done the ‘full compare’ analysis), but it will be interesting to see how this continued making over of 1/3 of your roster each year with transfers plays out.
The cumulative effect is less than we might assume as so many of the inbounds are 1-year ‘rentals’ - so they don’t have 110 transfers on their roster. Looks to be about 50 (counting JUCO’s). Furman has about 6 (not counting Prep Schools).
Hopefully, the righteous FU methodology, which we right-thinking people prefer for our College Football Teams, will prevail and we have the Ad Hoc Hired Homewood Hounds running back to B’Ham like scalded dogs when we tangle on 9/28 in the shadow of Paris Mountain.
