07-24-2022, 02:40 PM
I think Booker, Fisk, and Wade-Perry were all in the same general category of plausibility for coming back. Yes Booker had better draft prospects but he also had been at Stanford a year less, has classmates running it back on the Farm this upcoming season, and had as plausible a case for improving his draft stock with another year as Fisk could have had, given that Booker had a disappointing last year. Fisk or Wade-Perry would have been sixth year players. I don't think any of those three leaving should have been a foregone conclusion and to lose all three stings.
Stepping back, the foregone Stanford eligibility for these three, Mike Williams, Jovan Swann, Dylan Jackson, and Harrison Phillips has been a big story for us in recent years. We used to have 70 percent of our DL get to a fifth year like Johnson and Wade-Perry did but it's become much rarer. At this point we probably have to prepare like only one among Moi, Rowell, and Caughey will be around in 2026 whereas in all previous decades we could have assumed two.
Stepping back, the foregone Stanford eligibility for these three, Mike Williams, Jovan Swann, Dylan Jackson, and Harrison Phillips has been a big story for us in recent years. We used to have 70 percent of our DL get to a fifth year like Johnson and Wade-Perry did but it's become much rarer. At this point we probably have to prepare like only one among Moi, Rowell, and Caughey will be around in 2026 whereas in all previous decades we could have assumed two.