In looking through the KSU Spring Football guide put out by the AD, I noticed that nearly every one of our players has redshirted or grayshirted. We all know that we redshirt and grayshirt a ton of players, but I decided to take a further look to get an accurate number of how many we actually do this with. I counted 60 redshirt or Grayshirts on our Spring roster and only 10 players that haven't. Those 10 players includes Juco guys like Jesse Mack and Taylor Laird who will spend at least 3 years in our system. It also doesn't count the incoming guys we have signed this year. That class only had 1 Juco player, who probably won't redshirt, and a bunch of high school guys, mostly who will redshirt.
Again, we already knew we had shifted to less Juco's and more system guys, but this number of 60 players who are spending an extra year in Bill Snyder's system is significant. Every year now we are playing with older players, and many of our key contributors have had 5 years being coaches by Snyder. This is a tremendous advantage we have over other teams. Not that other teams don't redshirt guys as well, but the number that we redshirt has to be higher than many of the non-elite teams. In addition, what other coach would get more out of his players after 5 years than Coach Snyder? He's one of the best coaches ever and most of our guys are getting 5 years in his system.
The good news is each year we are redshirting more and more guys because of our depth. This trend is going to continue to grow. We can expect to be older and more experienced in our system than the majority of the teams we play each year. Not a bad situation.
Again, we already knew we had shifted to less Juco's and more system guys, but this number of 60 players who are spending an extra year in Bill Snyder's system is significant. Every year now we are playing with older players, and many of our key contributors have had 5 years being coaches by Snyder. This is a tremendous advantage we have over other teams. Not that other teams don't redshirt guys as well, but the number that we redshirt has to be higher than many of the non-elite teams. In addition, what other coach would get more out of his players after 5 years than Coach Snyder? He's one of the best coaches ever and most of our guys are getting 5 years in his system.
The good news is each year we are redshirting more and more guys because of our depth. This trend is going to continue to grow. We can expect to be older and more experienced in our system than the majority of the teams we play each year. Not a bad situation.
