I think Newman could start right away, but I hope they have a competition for the job with Dixon and Harper included in addition to Tompkins and Hastings. Can Newman participate in spring practice??

The most surprising get is Tattersall, who apparently has two years of eligibility left and started the first four games for Cal in 2021 and had ten tackles against Sac State. We lost 2 guys who played a lot minutes at inside linebacker for us in Hansen and Scharetg, so he definitely fills a need, He’s listed as a grad student. We could be really strong at linebacker.

I imagine Kraut would like to play on offense, since they list him as a receiver and he came here. We sure shored up the receiving corp after losing the three guys who of were big contributors there.
As regards to PWO, I thought there was some rule against the school including the in the NLI press release.

I wonder how much eligibility Newman has. Can Cal time count as a redshirt year?

A big day for the Sonoma County recruits, especially if Antonini sends in his commitment.
Kraut from Santa Rosa, Newman from Sebastopol, and Antonini from Petaluma.

Grad school isn’t for everyone and I don’t think grad schools want to enroll people who aren’t really planning to get the degree. I don’t think there is a grad school that will give a degree in a year, except a teaching credential. If they allowed a second bachelors degree, someone might want to do that and could earn that in a year.. I don’t think there is a strong enough incentive for someone to play a fifth or sixth year here, as Gilliam and Perryman and probably soon others illustrate. That’s why looking at the roster with a view toward remaining eligibility is deceiving. Guys might stay an extra quarter, but if it’s a year probably not.

You do an amazing job with this list and it’s much appreciated.

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For the next couple of years we are going to see players not returning for their last year of eligibility. Rodrigues is a 2016 high school grad, Crawford a 2017 HS grad. Crawford and many others of the junior class has been enrolled for 17 13 quarters already, so with full loads would have 255 195 units after 2021 fall.

Registering for classes after completing 225 units historically required permission from the dean, which I suppose they’d be given. If they graduate UCs historically haven’t allowed students to enroll without a degree objective or for a second bachelors degree. We can’t offer grads short term degree objective like most schools can.

Hawkins may have started freshmen but has he ever started a true freshmen at QB, anywhere? Cody Hawkins, Ryan Dinwiddie, Jared Zabransky all redshirted. I don’t know about at Willamette.

I think the younger QBs on the roster Harper and Dixon are likely going to get a look, whereas they didn’t last year. They’ve now been through a couple of camps so maybe they’ve shown something.
I love having Tompkins take some snaps and I’d like to see him expand the envelope of what he does out there, but I don’t think he’s an every down quarterback. He could change my mind with a few completions.

Filipe Figueroa is from the class of 2019. I’m curious about the really young guys who graduated from HS this spring two recruiting classes later. We signed nine or ten, some with three stars or had interest from a few FBS schools. Very atypical for none of those guys to play other than a few minutes in one sided games. Contrast that with the class of 2020 that had guys playing big roles immediately, like Larison, Hutton, Maae, Buchanan and others.

Seems likely we’re looking at a class about the same size as the 2021 recruiting class. Those 2021 recruits, probably due to the COVID free year given to everyone else, saw little action. However, it was ranked as one of the better recruiting classes in the Big Sky. The running back from Marin Catholic Matteo Perez got some praise early on.
Has anyone heard that any of those recruits looked good in practice?

Interesting contrast between this and the the Nathaniel Hackett press conference. Hackett reportedly builds relationships with players, and it looks like McCaffrey’s main problem is not building any relationships with his players.

The use of y’all from a guy who spent much of. his career in Northern California, upstate New York, and Wisconsin was kind of unexpected.
Seems like a good guy, it will be interesting to see how he does.

understood. Really at the recruiting stage the teams interested is more meaningful than the rating but even that doesn’t correlate with what their career turns out to be.

Ernesto Nava, was on Azusa Pacific roster 2020., so he’s one of several now with us.

Where did Andre Crump get rated as three stars? 247sports said he walked on there with no stars

https://247sports.com/Player/Andre-Crump-46058949/

That’s definitely an argument for it, but the usual approach for teams that can’t recruit big linemen out of high school is to draft kids whose frame can carry the weight and then they add mass through weight training. Teams that follow that approach kick our butt. Our linemen are light and short for a passing team. Guys can be big and lean but they need to be big.

How big the guys holding down the bench are only matters to guys building the bench.

We have offensive linemen who stay the same or get lighter as time goes by. I think it’s a preference as the trend is so definite , but it is definitely unusual. Connor Petteck went from 305 lbs as a freshmen to 280.Jake Parks went from 290 to 285.
The only player that played much that added significant weight was Colton Lamson, who went from 235 to 296. All the above weight changes are over multiple years.

Statistics as a whole don’t look good, probably because of the way they finished the season.
For the season our opponents beat us in rushing yards, average per rush, passing yards, yards per attempt, threw fewer interceptions and more first downs by penalty.
We need to replace guys who caught 103 passes, and our leading rusher.

I think the extended eligibility is misleading, and should not be counted on in the case of players who are making regular progress to a degree. An exception to that might be a JC or other transfer who still has three years of eligibility. He’ll probably still be around because it’s hard to graduate in two years after transferring as units don’t match up in most cases so staying an extra quarter is natural. There are some of those guys because JC players also got additional eligibility for 2020 and may still have three years of eligibility after playing for two years.
Maybe we’ll see some FCS transfers, but when have we ever had one that played?
FBS transfers will likely stay within FBS, as they no longer need to sit out.. As a consequence we’re less likely to get one than in years past.
I think transfers will look at our team as being in a rebuilding year. We don’t have a settled QBs, we don’t have a returning top running back, we are graduating key receivers, other key players are transferring, we lost our last three games, so I don’t think we’ll get the graduate transfer who is looking to step into a winner. We shouldn’t be looking for that guy either, we need to get good young players who will be here for a while.