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Yessir. I actually did it last night, but I haven't added the new walk-ons yet. The "few extra" scholarships comment Cap'n referenced caught my eye as well as the only "5 DBs on scholly" comment. What I have shows otherwise and actually shows we are completely full on schollies. Now obviously there are some things we don't know in regards to the extra scholarships. I.E. maybe Denzel Butler did transfer out of the program, Featherstone decided not to use his med redhsirt, the new freshman punter will be the only on on scholly, etc. Same goes with the DB comment. Does he include players listed on the roster as CB and S in that comment? Even if he doesn't I count 7. If you want to exclude Butler and somebody else, then we are down to 5. But that doesn't include "CB" and "S", so that situation isn't as bad as it looks, though I do agree if Butler is gone then we are very thin with players that actually play CB. Zips Football Scholarship Chart.xlsx

I really would have liked Jaylin Bannerman, but he was released from UMASS after signing LOI, we didn't offer him per 247, and he didn't sign anywhere today. Has to be something going on there.

I think they envision Bryce Wilson (275) filling that role. Switching to the 3-4, we need more DEs/LBs and they definitely seemed to emphasize that.

So I went through and used the class calculator for 247 and corrected things based on how they presently are now. Note that this doesn't include Demetrick Watts (no profile), Kevin Walls (no profile), and Adetutu (counted towards last years class even though he shouldn't have), so the score is slightly understated. We should have a class score of 123.17, good enough for national overall of 120. Ironically enough, what we perceived to be Bowden's best class last year, was ranked 120th overall and only had a score of 114. That class also ended up having 3 non-qualifers in it. Prior to last year, TB never even had a score above 100...and he always had players who ended up being non-qualifers, so even those were inflated. I think its safe to say Arth and Co have done a heck of a job, considering history AND considering the circumstances of a short recruiting season.

Do you have a link to his video? I can't even find him on hudl!

Tyson McDonald is signed as well. Missed that.

Committed guys (as far as we know) unsigned: https://247sports.com/player/tyson-mcdonald-46059370/ https://247sports.com/player/peter-hayes-patrick-76208/ Demetrick Watts - LB - Humboldt State "Warm" guys who it seems we would want unsigned: https://247sports.com/player/jaylin-bannerman-79554/ https://247sports.com/player/quevan-lawson-46039289/

And was technically a Bowden recruit (and non-qualifer) last year. Nice job of the staff to keep him. Need to get players from ST. A.

Well that'll be all she wrote. Horrid first half and seemingly running out of gas in the 2nd was the difference. Seems like we really only have a 7 man rotation, with Poke and Banks the main subs.

These announcers are the worst.

He's certainly bringing it this half.

Toledo's coach is an idiot for not calling a TO during this run, but I'll take it!

LCJ has to hit that wide open 3. Liking Riak on the boards. Rebounding like he should. Liking Cheese's/the teams tempo so far this half.

20 points at the half. Amazing how this team can't even get lucky and shoot great one game.

Another PWO. Must be cleaning house with walk ons.

Need more from Cheese and Banks.

speak of the devil.

Another one to keep an eye on https://247sports.com/player/corey-thomas-86376/

Looks like he even might have been originally from CLE based on the 216 reference in his twitter profile.

Thanks B&G. Looks accurate to me based on what we've heard! I wonder if we will have Adetutu. We've heard of Shredo and Sibley going elsewhere, but not him. May also have Ben Phillis show up, another apparent non-qualifer/greyshirt from last year's class.

https://gozips.com/news/2019/2/5/akron-football-to-announce-signees-all-day-wednesday.aspx?fbclid=IwAR2Uph6J10F3-k7G3FLu8Jv_SWUC8aDWlTykDOIVhK9qLfqZZRbuH9Hd8DU

I was hoping we could keep him. I wonder if he's a non-qualifier being that he waited so late in the process to decommit and say he isn't signing on NSD? He had other offers and plenty of time to open his recruitment.

hell of a get right there buddy boys! http://www.hudl.com/profile/4758680/Peter-HayesPatrick

This one just popped up on 247 as an offer/warm/Akron crystal ball pick. https://247sports.com/player/quevan-lawson-46039289/

I'm going to withhold my opinion on the class until all signings are officially announced. We seem to still be in the running to land some nice players. As stated, some of these players that have committed that seem underwhelming are going to be walk-ons. Offers are a nice measurement, but so is tape. I don't remember Alvin Davis or Jatavis Brown having any other offers, even FCS.