Hengst wrote:
I just think we're deep enough at receiver this year that his chances of playing a slim. We'll see though, if he really is that good Max is going to have some good options to throw too. Next year is going to be unreal. Jacobson will be back, Hafoka and Ashworth will have had a year to get into football shape, Chambers will have a year under his belt. Collie will still be around. Also I still think we may see some good things out of Koz, Jordan Smith & Landen Jaussi. Max will be able to complete passes with his eyes closed.
And I haven't even started talking about Tight end yet. Crazy!
Throwing too many redshirts around on questionable contributors steals scholarship years from guys that Mendenhall and company may covet and of course guys (especially Olinemen and soon to be missionaries) that are of no benefit to the team without the redshirt.
One thing Lavell (at the end of his tenure) and Crowton sadly did, was keep a lot of noncontributors on scholarship a lot longer than they needed to be. (there were a lot of 1 and dones between 1999-2004 and we didn't have a scholarship for Kevin Curtis or David Anderson because we had guys like Jason Kukahiko, Elan Edwards, Micah Alba, Breyon Jones, Michael Lafitte,etc. and the slew of troubled Crowton crop sitting on their hands taking up reps (and several taking scholarships and redshirt years) that could have gone elsewhere.)
I simply haven't seen the same propensity to be as wasteful with Bronco....
Why redshirt a guy that you're not sure will ever be ready, if you believe that the next recruit might be and might not come if you don't have a scholarship.
At some point in the future, we'll know if not having available scholarships will hurt us as it pertains to guys like Frandsen, Cody Raymond, etc. Just the same, we can't gamble on every guy with big numbers pre-D1 that they'll be the diamond in the rough that college stars like Kevin Curtis, David Anderson, or a Jaycee Carroll in hoops was.
Then there's the completely unforeseeable, like Ben Olson or Chris Burgess never being good and the scholarships we saved on guys like that. Part of it is sheer dumb luck.
