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[QUOTE="SUskibum, post: 3940960, member: 149"]
I am about as pro-patient as they come, but I have one issue with your roster analysis that [USER=114]GoSU96[/USER] did a good job highlighting earlier this summer.

All the Soph and half of the Fr are actually Jr and So.  Every single player except the true 2020 frosh (like Ellis and Duce) are a year older than the roster indicates.  We are loaded with players on year 3-6 on the 2 deep.

I’ll try to find Go’s post on it… but we have good depth and experience at almost every position (except CB where we have 3 talented players, 2 with experience but no depth behind them)

What is your prognostication for a record for this year? Just curious given you don’t have orange colored glasses or 20 years of negativity baked in haha

EDIT: actually Go underestimated the roster experience and [USER=628]Scooch[/USER] did the breakdown by year.  See below

[I][B]I figured it'd be interesting to categorize it by the year each player is going into this season. So, for example, redshirt senior McKinley Williams will be in his 6th year starting this summer camp, due to his pre-2020 redshirt season and his bonus year of eligibility due to COVID...

6th year: 4
5th year: 12
4th year: 13
3rd year: 23
1st year or 2nd year: 33

This paints the experience level of the team in a somewhat different light. More than one-third of the roster (34%) is going into their 4th, 5th or 6th year in the program. Another 27% is going into the 3rd year.

That means 61% of the roster has at least 2+ full seasons of practice under their belt, which makes them at least nominally upperclassmen, in a traditional sense.[/B][/I]

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