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[QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 4062468, member: 405"]
I'm not an expert on this, but I think losing a bunch of guys to transfer doesn't increase the maximum number of scholarships you can give out in 1 year.  I think it's 25.  Plus there's natural attrition every year.

To me, ours seems worse than average.  It used to be around 5 guys or so who might not come back, due to accrual of injuries, having a degree, not making as big a mark as you hoped, etc.  So that always happens.

But it seems like we are losing way too many guys.  Of course new head coaches get rid of guys when they come in.  And it was something like 20 of them with both Marrone and with Dino, as I recall.  Then you need a couple classes to build up the numbers again to get to around 85.

Except that we never seem to get there.  We never seem to have a deep team.  Part of that is player retention and development.  Other schools seem to do a better job holding on to players.

I would argue on the other hand that if the only incumbents are young, too, nobody has much of an advantage over anybody else.  It's different trying to beat out a guy only 1 class ahead of you, as opposed to beating out an experienced upperclassman.
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