If I remember correctly, I thought I saw some media type say that we could, could maybe be looking at a class size of 20 - 22. That was a couple weeks ago after our last verbal and before these latest developments.
That's what several have said but we're going to have to lose a bunch of guys early for that to work. Williams and Stringfellow and the 11 2015 commits put us at 85 as of right now. Losing Harrison would obviously open one spot back up but anything past that will have to be someone else leaving the team early. If we lose Gregory and Harrison, we could get to 13 in the 2015 class (assuming no underclassmen walk-ons get scholarships). Not that there won't be more but I don't see a lot more likely candidates right now. I won't be surprised if David Sutton follows Pirman out the door but there aren't many obvious ones after that.
Of the rest of this year's juniors, most are expected to be in the rotation this year, if they haven't been already. There are six offensive linemen so if a couple don't end up playing much that could be a spot but they're all on the two-deep right now. After that, Taariq Allen has probably played the least but he's also been hurt and sounds like he'll be in the mix this year. Same story for Kevin Williams. Cockrell and Keels obviously haven't played but I doubt either would leave early.
This year's sophomores ALL played good snaps last year except for the two offensive linemen. Not many candidates out of that group, imo.
So you'd basically have a couple guys here and there and then any freshmen who don't think they're moving up the ladder quickly enough. But even if we lose Sutton a couple OLinemen and a freshmen or two, that's still 18. I just don't see a lot of possibilities of getting higher than that. But you never know.
