Next years 2023 Squad

[mee2323]

How many of UNLV’s top players will be back next year? If we rattle off 8 wins, do we bring back enough with 2023 additions to sniff a preseason ranking?

it’s nice to be on this board. I haven’t posted on anything other than Confidential in years. It’s the busiest board now!

 

[j. spilotro]

How many of UNLV’s top players will be back next year? If we rattle off 8 wins, do we bring back enough with 2023 additions to sniff a preseason ranking?

it’s nice to be on this board. I haven’t posted on anything other than Confidential in years. It’s the busiest board now!

Hey dude.

 

[rebel5280]

Next year we could use some instant help on the O-line, D-line, a bigger WR who can attack all levels of the defense, 2 pass rushers, a lockdown CB and big TE. The good thing is we can get right with the transfer portal!

 

[Rebel1986]

Unless players transfer away from UNLV, we could be looking at a lot of very skilled players being even better next year. The BSU/SDSU dynasty could be coming to an end as the UNLV dynasty hopefully starts up with a bang!

 

[LINEBACKER_U]

I think winning big this year will help us with the portal game/shenanigans.

 

[unlv7163]

They basically return everyone (at least everyone that wants to come back and is welcome to. Potentially very exciting. Have to survive a few things though.

1-Coaching staff turnover. Starts with Arroyo, obviously, but even if he stays, bigger schools will want to poach assistants with our success.

2-Jacoby Windmon style transfers. I think 7-9 wins this year and the potential at 10 or so next year makes it much easier for those types of players to stay, but of course a lot depends on the staff stability

3-Health. This is obvious, but worth stating as schools like us don’t have a lot of depth.

Looking at the schedule, I could see a team that potentially wins 9 or 10 regular season games and contends for the MWC championship. Here are the games and my outlook as things are at this moment in time.

-vs Bryant (should be easy W)
-@ Michigan (They will lose quite a bit, but still a likely L. Pretty cool to go to ND and to Michigan in back to back years though.
-vs Vanderbilt (They have improved a bit, but this is winnable. Could go either way
- @ UTEP (should win if above goes right, but not a slam dunk

Home conference
Colorado St
Wyoming
San Jose St
Hawaii

Road conference
Fresno St
Air Force
New Mexico
Nevada

Conference slate is always tough to predict, but again, should be manageable. Very similar to this year in my opinion. Wyoming, SJSU, Fresno St and AFA are the toughest. The wildcard though is many of these schools will likely follow our model and hit the transfer portal hard. Much easier to improve quickly as result.

 

[Jay's Rebel's]

They basically return everyone (at least everyone that wants to come back and is welcome to. Potentially very exciting. Have to survive a few things though.

1-Coaching staff turnover. Starts with Arroyo, obviously, but even if he stays, bigger schools will want to poach assistants with our success.

2-Jacoby Windmon style transfers. I think 7-9 wins this year and the potential at 10 or so next year makes it much easier for those types of players to stay, but of course a lot depends on the staff stability

3-Health. This is obvious, but worth stating as schools like us don’t have a lot of depth.

Looking at the schedule, I could see a team that potentially wins 9 or 10 regular season games and contends for the MWC championship. Here are the games and my outlook as things are at this moment in time.

-vs Bryant (should be easy W)
-@ Michigan (They will lose quite a bit, but still a likely L. Pretty cool to go to ND and to Michigan in back to back years though.
-vs Vanderbilt (They have improved a bit, but this is winnable. Could go either way
- @ UTEP (should win if above goes right, but not a slam dunk

Home conference
Colorado St
Wyoming
San Jose St
Hawaii

Road conference
Fresno St
Air Force
New Mexico
Nevada

Conference slate is always tough to predict, but again, should be manageable. Very similar to this year in my opinion. Wyoming, SJSU, Fresno St and AFA are the toughest. The wildcard though is many of these schools will likely follow our model and hit the transfer portal hard. Much easier to improve quickly as result.

I’d take a look at the roster a bit more.. We don’t return everyone, not even close.. Unless they still have an option at an additional COVID year? We lose practically our whole O-line, Ajiake, & a few other contributors on both sides of the ball.. Unless they have another year to opt in?

We retain our main playmakers; Brum, Robbins, receiving corps, but we could actually lose quite a bit more than you’re suggesting..

 

[unlv7163]

I’d take a look at the roster a bit more.. We don’t return everyone, not even close.. Unless they still have an option at an additional COVID year? We lose practically our whole O-line, Ajiake, & a few other contributors on both sides of the ball.. Unless they have another year to opt in?

We retain our main playmakers; Brum, Robbins, receiving corps, but we could actually lose quite a bit more than you’re suggesting..

Everyone has a COVID option if they choose. So basically everyone on the 2 deep has the option of returning. Not everyone will of course. Some will transfer (hopefully not many) and others will decide to move on from college/football if they have graduated and start their careers. There may even be one or two (like Ricky White) that could decide to turn pro. Regardless, was just saying most of the key contributors COULD return, not they WOULD.

Here’s a link I found with the depth chart. Everyone not listed as a RS SR could use COVID extra year (at least that’s my understanding of rule) if they choose. The players list as RS SR could as well if the 5th year was due to a redshirt. If the 5th is due to the extra COVID year, then they would not be eligible to return.

https://www.ourlads.com/ncaa-football-depth-charts/depth-chart/unlv/92246/

 

[Jay's Rebel's]

Everyone has a COVID option if they choose. So basically everyone on the 2 deep has the option of returning. Not everyone will of course. Some will transfer (hopefully not many) and others will decide to move on from college/football if they have graduated and start their careers. There may even be one or two (like Ricky White) that could decide to turn pro. Regardless, was just saying most of the key contributors COULD return, not they WOULD.

Here’s a link I found with the depth chart. Everyone not listed as a RS SR could use COVID extra year (at least that’s my understanding of rule) if they choose. The players list as RS SR could as well if the 5th year was due to a redshirt. If the 5th is due to the extra COVID year, then they would not be eligible to return.

https://www.ourlads.com/ncaa-football-depth-charts/depth-chart/unlv/92246/

Ya, I understand what you’re saying.. But we have 6 starters that are GR transfers or RS seniors, who are out of eligibility after this year.. & then you have 5 Seniors who’s eligibility is up in the air.. Whether they even have an extra COVID year and choose to exercise it.. That’s 11/22 starters, 6 of whom are already gone at years end..

So when you say “they basically return everyone,” was just saying that’s not exactly the case..

 

[unlv7163]

Ya, I understand what you’re saying.. But we have 6 starters that are GR transfers or RS seniors, who are out of eligibility after this year.. & then you have 5 Seniors who’s eligibility is up in the air.. Whether they even have an extra COVID year and choose to exercise it.. That’s 11/22 starters, 6 of whom are already gone at years end..

So when you say “they basically return everyone,” was just saying that’s not exactly the case..

Yes, could have explained that better, (but did qualify that somewhat by saying those who were invited and wanted to) but didn’t want the post to be longer than it already was. I merely wanted to point out that even RS seniors could potentially come back. Graduate transfers aren’t limited to a single season of eligibility. If they graduate after 3 seasons and have redshirted, they could play 3 more years (if you include the COVID season). I could be completely wrong, but thought I remembered someone on the radio saying that we could potentially be returning 20 or 21 out of 22 seasons. Don’t know if that‘s true, and if it is, if it’s likely that would happen. My guess barring Arroyo leaving and having a mass exodus is that we will be around 15 or so out 22 which is still a great amount especially given that Brumfield, White, K. Williams, etc are among them. At the end of the day, it doensn’t matter much, just need to let it play out and see how it all settles.

 

[1Tripoda]

Everyone has a COVID option if they choose. So basically everyone on the 2 deep has the option of returning. Not everyone will of course. Some will transfer (hopefully not many) and others will decide to move on from college/football if they have graduated and start their careers. There may even be one or two (like Ricky White) that could decide to turn pro. Regardless, was just saying most of the key contributors COULD return, not they WOULD.

Here’s a link I found with the depth chart. Everyone not listed as a RS SR could use COVID extra year (at least that’s my understanding of rule) if they choose. The players list as RS SR could as well if the 5th year was due to a redshirt. If the 5th is due to the extra COVID year, then they would not be eligible to return.

https://www.ourlads.com/ncaa-football-depth-charts/depth-chart/unlv/92246/

Ok. Then explain to me how that USU QB Bonner get to play 7 yeArs of college ball?

If he go to mission that 2 years plus a RS year and 4 years I eligibility that made sense. But that is not his bio said. He played 2 years at another school and plays 5 years at USU. How?

 

[jmcnamaraiii]

Who knows in the transfer world…
One thing we know out of this year is Arroyo can get impact transfers. Imagine they’re back for one more year. Let’s see if they can keep this up first.

 

[unlv7163]

Ok. Then explain to me how that USU QB Bonner get to play 7 yeArs of college ball?

If he go to mission that 2 years plus a RS year and 4 years I eligibility that made sense. But that is not his bio said. He played 2 years at another school and plays 5 years at USU. How?

Players could get up to 6 years of eligibility (playing in 4). You get 1 redshirt (playing less than 4 games) and could get a medical redshirt too if it’s determined that a player lost a year due to injury. The Covid year (2020) basically isn’t recognized as far as eligibility goes which means if you qualified for 6th (like Bonner) you get a 7th. Missions don’t count as years which means kids that went on missions could be playing 9 years after they graduated in theory

 

[Jay's Rebel's]

Yes, could have explained that better, (but did qualify that somewhat by saying those who were invited and wanted to) but didn’t want the post to be longer than it already was. I merely wanted to point out that even RS seniors could potentially come back. Graduate transfers aren’t limited to a single season of eligibility. If they graduate after 3 seasons and have redshirted, they could play 3 more years (if you include the COVID season). I could be completely wrong, but thought I remembered someone on the radio saying that we could potentially be returning 20 or 21 out of 22 seasons. Don’t know if that‘s true, and if it is, if it’s likely that would happen. My guess barring Arroyo leaving and having a mass exodus is that we will be around 15 or so out 22 which is still a great amount especially given that Brumfield, White, K. Williams, etc are among them. At the end of the day, it doensn’t matter much, just need to let it play out and see how it all settles.

Pretty sure the COVID year is reflected on the updated roster and what year they are right now.. But who knows, we’ll see what we are left with at the end of the year.. Still need to get to a bowl & not look too far ahead..