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With National Signing Day upon us, all eyes and thoughts are on the #NewHoos. Here at STL, we decided to nerd the hell out and break down the scholarship situation over the next few years.
Each FBS football program has a scholarship allotment of 85. FBS football is also a head-count sport, so 85 scholarships means 85 players on scholarship; other sports can split partial scholarships among multiple players to end up at the equivalent of their allotted number.
The table below breaks down UVa's scholarship allotment by year and position group. More notes after.
| 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | Total (Scholarship) | Incoming | |
|
DB |
5
CB Demetrious NicholsonCB DreQuan Hoskey FS Brandon Phelps FS David Marrs* SS Anthony Harris |
3
CB Maurice CanadyFS Mason Thomas SS Kyrrel Latimer |
6
CB Tim HarrisCB C.J. Moore CB Divante Walker CB Wilfred Wahee FS Anthony Cooper SS Kelvin Rainey |
2
CB Kirk GarnerSS Malcolm Cook |
16 (15) |
S Quin Blanding CB Darious Latimore CB Jeffery Farrar CB Donovan Dowling |
| DL |
4
DE Cameron Fitch*DE Stephen Lawe DT Greg Gallop* DT Chris Brathwaite |
5
DE Mike MooreDE Marco Jones DE Eli Harold DE Trent Corney DT David Dean |
2
DT Donte WilkinsDT Andre Miles-Redmond |
4 DE Jack English DT Andrew Brown DT Jack Babcock* DT Tyrell Chavis |
15 (12) | DE Michael Biesemier DE JJ Jackson DE Darrious Carter |
| LB |
3
MLB Henry ColeyOLB DJ Hill OLB Daquan Romero |
3
MLB Kwontie MooreOLB Demeitre Brim OLB Darius Lee |
3 OLB Zach Bradshaw OLB Max Valles OLB Mark Hall |
1 |
10 (10) | OLB Caanan Brown OLB Chris Peace OLB Cory Jones |
| QB | 0 | 1 David Watford |
2 Greyson Lambert Matt Johns |
2 Brendan Marshall Andrew Mackay* |
5 (4) | Corwin Cutler |
| RB/FB | 2 RB Khalek Shepherd RB Kevin Parks |
1 FB Vincent Croce |
5 RB LaChaston Smith RB Kye Morgan RB Taquan Mizzell FB Connor Wingo-Reeves FB Israel Vaughan* |
2 RB Anthony Calloway* RB Daniel Hamm* |
10 (7) | RB Jordan Ellis |
| WR | 3 Darius Jennings Dominique Terrell Miles Gooch |
1 Canaan Severin |
3 Kyle Dockins Jamall Brown Keeon Johnson |
2 Ryan Santoro* Andre Levrone |
9 (9) | Jamil Kamara |
| TE | 3 Zachary Swanson Jake McGee Jeremy Dollin* |
1 Rob Burns |
1 Mario Nixon |
0 | 5 (4) | Evan Butts |
| OL |
4
G Jon Goss*G Conner Davis T Nick Koutris* T Cody Wallace |
3 C John Pond* G/C Ross Burbank T Jay Whitmire |
7 C Jackson Matteo* C Eric Tetlow G Ryan Doull G Sean Karl T Eric Smith T Sadiq Olanrewaju T Michael Mooney |
4 G George Adeosun G Jack McDonald OL Philip Berry* OL Jake Fieler |
18 (13) | G Steven Moss |
| ST | 3 LS Matt Fortin LS Blake Blaze* P Alec Vozenilek |
1 K Ian Frye* |
5 LS Jeb Byrne* P Nicholas Conte* P James Coleman* K Dylan Sims* K Willem van Reesema* |
2 LS Alex Foertsch* LS Tyler Shirley* |
11 (2) | |
| TOTALS | 27 | 19 | 34 | 19 | 99 (75) | 15 |
Players in BOLD are mid-year enrollees (Andrew Brown and Jake Fieler). Players marked with an asterisk (*) are not on scholarship.
By our count, the Hoos will be at 90 scholarships for the 2014 season. Even a UNC athlete can tell you 90 is more than 85. Mike London et al will have to deploy their best creative arithmetic to get UVa under the scholarship limit. Bottom line? Don't expect any signing day surprises, because there's already no room at the inn.
In case anyone you know gripes about the size of this year's Cavalier commitment pool, (1) point to Quin Blanding and Andrew Brown, and (2) send them here for a quick math lesson. With the size of the current roster, the coaches didn't have a lot of extra needs to recruit. They went hard on the top-level talent in the Commonwealth, secured two of the best players in the country, and filled in some gaps with quality players.
