flatwaterfan
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In my opinion the target number for D-line is 11. This is how I arrive at that target. You have 85 scholarships. Lets say you budget 3 for special teams. (Now that is a soft number and it could be anywhere from 0-3 but for a high level planninng view assume you never have more than 3 but potentially you could have a scholarship LS,K,P so you plan worst case scenario)
So basically year to year you have 82 overall. Divide that in half for offense and defense and basically you can figure you have 41 scholarships to allocate for defense. Now if you had 4 scholarships at every position that would be 44 which is 3 over. To scale back to 41 just take 1 guy off at each level as there are 3 levels on defense. so if you are in a 3-4 defense than (3*4)-1 = 11. DB's and LB's are (4*4)-1 = 15. (IMO target numbers are tough to hit as rosters are pretty dynamic and sometimes you just might not have the talent or experience so you might load up on a position or you have unexpected attrition and the number of recruits that may or may not commit are unknown. So really they are probably working with ranges. So you could say that they want to be in the range of 10-12. But for this discussion I am saying 11 is optimal. If you go 12 than you have to be 1 short somewhere else.
Okay if you were to break down the 11 DL I would say that you would want 7 DE's and 4 NG's. I think it's important to have 4 NG types because you may play an additional nose in goal-line defenses.
Just going by body type or ability I would say that Daniels and Hutmacker are every down noses.
I would say that Stille, Thomas,Rogers,Walker,Newsome, Wildeman and Robinson are more DE types. Green has been penciled as a DE. I think he could be a nose though if needed and will count him as a DE/NG.
This means we need at least 1 more nose. Personally I feel pretty good about the numbers and talent at DL. We are pretty close. I agree with the concern at OLB. We have not done so well there.
So basically year to year you have 82 overall. Divide that in half for offense and defense and basically you can figure you have 41 scholarships to allocate for defense. Now if you had 4 scholarships at every position that would be 44 which is 3 over. To scale back to 41 just take 1 guy off at each level as there are 3 levels on defense. so if you are in a 3-4 defense than (3*4)-1 = 11. DB's and LB's are (4*4)-1 = 15. (IMO target numbers are tough to hit as rosters are pretty dynamic and sometimes you just might not have the talent or experience so you might load up on a position or you have unexpected attrition and the number of recruits that may or may not commit are unknown. So really they are probably working with ranges. So you could say that they want to be in the range of 10-12. But for this discussion I am saying 11 is optimal. If you go 12 than you have to be 1 short somewhere else.
Okay if you were to break down the 11 DL I would say that you would want 7 DE's and 4 NG's. I think it's important to have 4 NG types because you may play an additional nose in goal-line defenses.
Just going by body type or ability I would say that Daniels and Hutmacker are every down noses.
I would say that Stille, Thomas,Rogers,Walker,Newsome, Wildeman and Robinson are more DE types. Green has been penciled as a DE. I think he could be a nose though if needed and will count him as a DE/NG.
This means we need at least 1 more nose. Personally I feel pretty good about the numbers and talent at DL. We are pretty close. I agree with the concern at OLB. We have not done so well there.
