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One team to watch in terms of recruiting this year is Florida.  They graduated three seniors last year, and had another player leave early to turn pro (last year's #3 singles player, then-freshman Ingrid Neel).  But they signed just two players to replace them, leaving them with just six scholarship athletes.  (They had three signed, but one player opted to turn pro before enrolling.)  No walk-ons, either, so any injury looms very large for them this season. 

And they're unbalanced, to boot--four seniors and those two freshmen.  While Florida did a reasonably good job in the early signing period, signing two blue chips, that only brings them up to four players for next year's roster.  Their best bet would be to attract some upperclass transfers to restore a little balance, but if not, they'll need two more freshman signees this spring just to allow them to field a full team next year, which would create further imbalance down the line. 

We had a similar situation in the 2014-15 season where we had just 6 scholarship athletes, but fleshed it out with walk-ons.  Not what you're looking for, but sometimes unavoidable in a sport where you might only take one or two players each year--that could have just been a down year in terms of the academically qualified pool.  You can manage around it, as Lele has shown, but it's certainly not ideal. 

[ColoradoTree]

One team to watch in terms of recruiting this year is Florida.  They graduated three seniors last year, and had another player leave early to turn pro (last year's #3 singles player, then-freshman Ingrid Neel).  But they signed just two players to replace them, leaving them with just six scholarship athletes.  (They had three signed, but one player opted to turn pro before enrolling.)  No walk-ons, either, so any injury looms very large for them this season. 

And they're unbalanced, to boot--four seniors and those two freshmen.  While Florida did a reasonably good job in the early signing period, signing two blue chips, that only brings them up to four players for next year's roster.  Their best bet would be to attract some upperclass transfers to restore a little balance, but if not, they'll need two more freshman signees this spring just to allow them to field a full team next year, which would create further imbalance down the line. 

We had a similar situation in the 2014-15 season where we had just 6 scholarship athletes, but fleshed it out with walk-ons.  Not what you're looking for, but sometimes unavoidable in a sport where you might only take one or two players each year--that could have just been a down year in terms of the academically qualified pool.  You can manage around it, as Lele has shown, but it's certainly not ideal.