National Signing Day '22 is in the books

He started off by saying that we finally entering the "new world" of transfers and "free agency."  He talked a lot in an attempt to explain why we didn't go into the portal for this season, including that we could have won 9 games.  He says that if we had done that, we would have been good this year but fallen back to where we were because of  "depth."

I honestly don't think this holds up to a whole lot of scrutiny--so the only way to succeed was to put those guys out there when they are too young and not strong enough and then come back in the next year and replace them with transfers and then in two years they come back and play again?  How would depth be different if they had brought in transfers last year and let those guys learn and get stronger as redshirts, which is normally what happens?

Regardless, I'm glad we are doing it now.

Here is how he broke it down.  We had 3 guys greyshirt, which means they paid their own way: Ali Saad, Denver Warren, Tommy Guajardo.  Of the 3, only Saad played in a game this season.  They will all go on scholarships.

There were 12 HS players, including 5 who hadn't been noted before signing day.

The most prominent one is Davonte Miles, a teammate of Jalen Holly at River Rouge.  He was three-time All-State for a team that was state runner up two years in a row (DIII).  Had a ton of P5 offers, had at one time committed to Michigan, de-committed and ended up with BG.  This has the potential to be a key one for this team.

Also, there was Trey Johnson, the brother of Jamal Johnson, who is already on the team.  He's listed at ATH but was all-state at RB/WR this season.

Joseph Sipp, a LB from Hillsborough (FL, Tampa area) which is where Max Warner coached.  Had 111 tackles this year and 122 last year.  Was all-conference player.

Jalen Huskey, a CB from Maryland.  He was on state title teams at 2 different schools, which is unusual.  Loeffler thinks he can play right away.

And Australian punter Sami Sir, who apparently was close with Ligashefsky and went to one of the kicking academies down there.

Sir, Bainbridge, Holly and Williams will enroll early.

Coach Loeffler also talked about the transfers at this point.  He can only announce the ones who are admitted to the University, which right now is these two players, who we have noted here.

S Chris Bacon, Georgia State

WR Odieu Hilaire, Alabama A&M. Brother played for Loeffler at UF.

There are 4 others he cannot mention until their admissions are final

2 OL (Haven't seen anything).

CB (I assume Oladokun)

K (I assume Rozanc)

There will be 4 slots remaining which they will address right after the dead period ends. He said 2 will be "big dudes," maybe 3.

He said there was a LB we really wanted who went to Kansas (I am assuming that is Eriq Gilyard, a UCF transfer).

Not from the presser:  we had 2 commits who did not sign.

One was Cass Tech WR Jameel Gardner, who flipped to Kent

The other is QB John Griffith from the St. Frances Academy in MD.  No idea on this one.  His twitter profile still lists him as a BG 22 commit.  (Not anymore).  I can't see anywhere else he committed.

So that's the class.  The promise is pretty clear...the offensive line gets cleaned up and we're back.  Time will tell.