I understand the penalties might not hit before signing day, but I was thinking as well as Golden has things planned out, when would the staff begin to approach things differently? Its not so much a matter of IF, its WHEN they hit, would it not be wise to be somewhat proactive the same way we were by taking a bowl ban last year?
Just a thought, seeing how USC has chosen to delay their scholarship reductions until this point, not sure if we would approach it the same way.
To prepare for future schollie reductions, Golden needs to max out as many schollies as he can NOW. That means make the team as YOUNG and as DEEP as he can now, BEFORE we are restricted. We stockpiled 50+ kids the last two classes. If we get at least 20 more in for 2013, that means we will have 70 kids on the team to give us as big a cushion as possible as we enter the restricted schollie years 2014 and 2015 and maybe 2016 where we could end up with 15-20 max schollies instead of 25 for each of those years.
Restricting schollies now or keeping deadweight SOs/JRs is a recipe for disaster. That is why this idea of taking only 16 ish kids is foolhardy. Frankly, i'd like to jam in 21-22 kids by getting rid of a ton of older kids now.
