by cu8493 » Tue Mar 10, 2015 9:47 am
Some (perhaps many) schools over sign all the time. Not all schools. I think this is a unique year for CU. We said goodbye to seven kids Saturday - four scholarship players and one starter/walk on, who all played significant minutes. That is five playing spots to be filled. We have two transfers waiting and one redshirt. We have four recruits coming in. Those six are sure to be here next year. Of the seven returning scholarship players, two (Harrell and LGIII) have plenty of opportunity to move into considerable playing time. Groselle looks to have taken hold of the starting center spot. He is graduating, but I can't imagine him wanting to not come back given the huge improvement he made this year and the chance to be the guy next year - and perhaps the top true center in the Big East. Hegner and Milliken certainly aren't going anywhere. So that leaves Zierden and Hanson as the only question marks. I don't see Zierden not coming back unless the knee injuries are just too much - which doesn't seem to be the case. I don't know about Zach, but lots of players suffer through the sophomore swoon. I don't see the coaching staff giving up on him. It seems that this may well be the year that no one bolts.
The staff is going to keep recruiting, because reality is that kids do leave, even ones that are a surprise. On the other hand, if a recruit asked our staff, are you going to have any scholarships open for sure, I would hope that unless one of the kids has already said he is not coming back our staff has the ethics and morality to have told the recruit no we can't promise there will be a scholarship open until we meet with the players at the end of the season. And I sure as hell hope they never pull a scholarship from a signed or committed recruit to give to someone they decide is a better option. No doubt we would have asked the recruit to be patient so we can see in a couple of weeks whether anyone has decided to leave. But, if Wojo pressured the kid to commit now or the schollie is going to someone else, then no kid is going to give up the sure thing to wait and hope someone from CU leaves, unless he really, really wants to come to CU - which obviously wasn't the case. So, I disagree that this staff is being out recruited just because this kid took the sure thing instead of waiting to see what happens at CU. I like the class they have and I am hopeful that everyone currently on campus stays.