I’m spending a few minutes looking over the most recent CU roster and scholarship numbers handed out here at Big 12 media days. It tells a pretty interesting tale.
CU has 73 active scholarship players. It has three inactive scholarship players in Sione Tau, Josh Moten and Toney Clemons. And it has two other scholarships devoted to grayshirts Edward Nuckols and Shaun Simon. That’s a total of 78 scholarship players.
It appears no walk-ons have been placed on scholarship between the end of spring ball and now. So there are seven available scholarships at this point that could go to walk-ons who have been in the program for at least two years.
Coach Dan Hawkins is also taking a scholarship penalty this year for poor performance under the NCAA’s Academic Progress Rate system. That penalty could be as many as five scholarships. Basically it means that CU could have signed more players than it did in February, if not for the penalty.
CU has 12 scholarship seniors on the roster. So if we assume that Nuckols and Simon remain Buffs and no other scholarship players leave the program between now and signing day, Hawkins will have 19 available scholarships for the 2010 class. He likes to leave himself some wiggle room, so I’m expecting them to sign 17 or 18 recruits in this cycle. They have four commitments so far.
Let’s get back to the current roster for a minute. There are 73 active scholarship players and 15 of them are true freshmen. It’s safe to assume about 10 of those players won’t play at all this season, which takes the number of active scholarship players down to 63. That’s not a horrible number, but it does mean CU really needs to avoid the injury plague that killed it last season.
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Earn your way back, Simas. Come back to the team a smarter, bigger, humbler man.
Agreed. Simas, from what I saw last year you have the chance to be a terrific player. Don't let this setback ruin your career. Learn from your mistakes, admit the problem, and work to overcome it. We need you in black and gold next year!
someone help me with this one……..simas may get to come back after all his "incidents" yet sumler was denied his last semester of scholarship cause he needed to pursue his master's somewhere else and leave cu—he always appeared to play by the rules. he just wanted to finish his undergraduate work at cu. where am i missing something?
i agree simas did well last year..but what about hawkin's comment saying "once is a mistake and twice is behavior"…conistency deems to be a problem for hawk, on and off….. .
sumler had a football scholarship… quit the team, yank the scholarship and use it for somebody else. makes sense to me. he can apply for other scholarships down the road like everybody else (read: non-football player).
true, however he could have just waited to let hawk know, til may……but instead he was courteous enough to let hawk know so it would benefit recruiting. imho…i might be way off. but, sumler could have finished spring semester and then told hawk…probably sumler's error…i really don't have all the facts at all…just a very outside thought