Looking at the roster by class

[Class of 82]

Without commenting on individual players, it's interesting to me that out of the 85 kids listed on the Zips roster, a whopping 33 are either freshmen or red-shirt freshmen.

15 sophomores.

20 juniors.

17 seniors.

It's pretty apparent that this is a far different team from last year's squad. Whether that translates into wins, time will tell. But Bowden and company have sure put their stamp on this roster already.

[Roo2]

And a few of those seniors are in their first season with the Zips. Excited to see a bunch of new faces, but that also means it may take longer for all those guys to gel together.

[ZachTheZip]

If you're adding the true and redshirt freshmen, then logically they should be the most numerous class. You have a full recruiting class plus half of last year's added together.

33 true+redshirt freshmen even seems a little low to me. The sophomore class is alarmingly low in numbers, and is a direct result of the exodus of players we've seen the past few years.

[Captain Kangaroo]

Without commenting on individual players, it's interesting to me that out of the 85 kids listed on the Zips roster, a whopping 33 are either freshmen or red-shirt freshmen.

Since that encompasses two recruiting classes, it makes sense.

It will be nice when we have sufficient depth that that number increases to 40+.

[Class of 82]

If you're adding the true and redshirt freshmen, then logically they should be the most numerous class. You have a full recruiting class plus half of last year's added together.

33 true+redshirt freshmen even seems a little low to me. The sophomore class is alarmingly low in numbers, and is a direct result of the exodus of players we've seen the past few years.

I was just looking at the roster at gozips and counted by class status. Anyway, it just struck me that you don't often see a college football team with that sort of breakdown by class.

But you're right, of course, about the number of players who bolted or were eased out.

[Class of 82]

Since that encompasses two recruiting classes, it makes sense.

It will be nice when we have sufficient depth that that number increases to 40+.

Actually, I miscounted. There are 26 true freshmen listed, and 13 red-shirts, for a total of 39.

So I guess we're close to your number already.