South Dakota State was pretty close. Most teams aren’t physical enough to match up, but South Dakota State did.

From the NFL.com site:
“Any college player who has completed four years of college eligibility, as distinguished from those who had a redshirt year, will be considered eligible for the 2022 draft unless a player submits a request to not be considered for the draft to the league by Feb. 4, 2022”.
Thomas doesn’t need to declare.
Thomas has been with the team for six seasons, redshirting his first year and hardly missing a game in the five seasons he played. Declaring is just a publicity stunt.

Hawaii knew what they were getting, so it’s really the school that’s at fault. A clue was that Arizona State was willing to forfeit 12M to get rid of him after a few seasons with not horrendous results.

I don’t think they should either. It’s interesting that in the case of Hawaii and Reno, we see the two opposites, players leaving to get away from a coach and players transferring to follow a coach.

The new mobility for players is going to make certain styles of coaching obsolete. It’s not like guys enlist for the duration,

In the past declaring for the draft was newsworthy only when a player still had eligibility.

Compare Hawkins experience with Ploughs on his first time here. Cody has more experienced playing and coaching.
Being a coaches son means growing up in football. As a quarterback in Colorado he played for other coaches besides his father so he’s seen other perspectives; his offensive coordinator at Colorado went on the be head coach at Oregon and offensive coordinator for the Chicago Bears. He worked as a position coach here under Plough. I wouldn’t discount his knowledge of the game just because his Dad was head coach.

There is a clear difference in physicality between our team and the teams we need to beat. We had a great game plan and some breaks when we beat Tulsa. But when we play teams that are familiar with what we do it’s harder. Our team needs the ability to play some power football to make the rest work.

Cody was highly regarded recruit after being HS player of the year in Idaho and won two state championships, then played three seasons in a major conference, passed for over 3000 yards as a sophomore.. He’s been a receivers coach at Davis. On paper he’s well qualified for the job he has, Whether he can perform well in that job is to be determined.
Plough and Tim Keane who went to Boise from here, are criticized for a not very physical offensive line, and the immobile quarterback not being protected. Plough kind of raised expectations and didn’t live up to them. He was talking 50 points a game and couldn’t get 30.

Plough worked with all the QBs who got playing time, for several years. He owns some credit for their development or lack there of.
I don’t know if Cory Hawkins is a good coach or not. I think he is knowledgeable, based in his playing career, and coaching resume. I think it’s a lot to ask a first year coordinator to also coach rookie QBs as their position coach.That’s a lot of work for a guy who is new to both roles.

I’ve long been puzzled why we don’t get more transfers from UC campuses, but historically we’ve lost approximately as many guys to those schools as we’ve gained. And that included an era when transfers didn’t have to sit out if they transferred to FCS and did if they transferred to FBS. So why should we get more now they don’t have to sit a year to move to another FBS school? New transfer rule doesn’t make coming from Berkeley to Davis any easier, as far as I know.
Like I said I think we’ll get some transfers, us signing only two HS players points to more transfers on the hook. Looks like we’re losing two so we’re starting in a hole.

Not only in a bowl but favored in the Sagarin predictions.

PS - Sagarin has Tulsa higher ranked than Montana State but below North Dakota State, James Madison and South Dakota State. That was a good win for us.

You wrote:
What's the roster limit? We have a huge RFrosh group, as big as Hawks first group.

15 - Freshmen
36 - Redshirt Freshmen*
23 - Sophs
17 - Juniors
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13 - Seniors / Grads

Those limits are 110 players on the roster, 85 players on some sort of scholarship and 63 total scholarships to divide up.

The breakdown of classes based on eligibility is deceptive because freshmen can either have been recruited in 2020 or 2021, and redshirt freshmen span three years, 2019, 2020, and 2021. We have 10 current redshirt freshmen who will have been on campus for four years, before they start their junior year. Could be a situation where half of the 91 guys have completed enough units to graduate after the upcoming academic year. That’s an argument for bringing in young guys each year, so half your team doesn’t move on.

I was joking

He missed a game in 2019, so I think that qualifies.

The excess eligibility is the colleges looking at how can I make a buck too. Society would be better served by more scholar athletes not the same ones for twice as long

True at the top end but so far we’ve been effected by the fact that NCAA has extended eligibility ridiculously, first by letting freshmen play, then letting redshirts play four games, then by the loose criteria for extra season if injured even after playing five games, and finally the COVID year doesn’t count. So athletes can be in a program for six or seven years, when it only takes four to earn a degree. So after the mission of earning a degree is accomplished why not seek another experience?
The extended eligibility is unfair to later year players, who don’t get the scholarships they would otherwise be offered.

I was thinking more of the transfers from four year colleges. The JC guys are kind of a given, there are some every year, many without a scholarship to begin with.
So guys like Castles, Smalley, Woods, Peyton Dixon, Albright, White (Navy). Martz is sort of a transfer from a four year Northern Colorado, but he never played there. Similar to Cloyd. Some stars, some not.

I’m sure we’ll get some transfers, we probably avererage one or two a year. Question is will they be impact players. Transfers that are major contributors here have been rare. But I agree that that’s the logical explanation of why we put out few offers. I guess they have some indication they’ll get some people.
The other alternative is painful to contemplate, and that is the new recruiting coordinators can’t recruit.

2021 Sophomores are the new fifth year seniors., they likely have been through four training camps and seasons, 2018 2019,2020,and 2021, so next year will be fifth year in program.
My point is that we don’t need to look to bring in upper classmen. A junior JC transfer is probably two years younger than a Junior in our the program. And just because someone has eligibility doesn’t mean they’ll be here longer than it takes to graduate. Gilliam and Perryman are just the first class of guys who will move on with eligibility, either to play elsewhere or to start post college life.