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[QUOTE="Scooch, post: 3865391, member: 628"]
Since I've already made a couple posts pre-emptively pushing back against "young team" rationalizations for losing, I figured I should check myself before I wreck myself[I] (note: that's a 90s hip hop reference, people under 30 can look it up).[/I]

I can't do the same kind of positional breakdown that Go started this thread with -- he's the king of that analysis -- but at a more topline level, here's how the roster looks by the number of years in the program.

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...

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

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.

I didn't have the energy to break down the difference between true frosh entering school, and classified frosh due to COVID (e.g. the Dillon Markiewicz's of the program).  But combined they make up 39% of the roster, which is probably a bit too much, but not as jarringly young as it may seem.

Soooo, I think we have more experience than the roster designations let on, but likely not quite as much as we'd prefer.
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