[washingtonismoney]

We should be thankful that we didn't have many scholarships available this year.  If we had a "regular" availability of, say, 22 scholarships, we wouldn't have been able to fill them with quality players who could get admitted.  In fact, while we don't know whether Smythe, Allen and Cunningham were admitted, there is a reasonable chance that we couldn't even fill 14 or 15 spots with quality players who could get in this year.  Having a lot of scholarships available would have been a disaster.  I think this is because somehow, this class just didn't have a large pool of athletes who could qualify academically. 

It's hard to untangle causality here. Here's a possible counterfactual: we offer more guys in the beginning because we know we have more spots, and hence we end up with more guys.

SC had a similar problem as we did with finishing the class -- there are a fair number of guys, in retrospect, I think they'd wished they'd offered. It may be hard to manage a smaller class, because you're relatively worried about overshooting.

[washingtonismoney]

We should be thankful that we didn't have many scholarships available this year.  If we had a "regular" availability of, say, 22 scholarships, we wouldn't have been able to fill them with quality players who could get admitted.  In fact, while we don't know whether Smythe, Allen and Cunningham were admitted, there is a reasonable chance that we couldn't even fill 14 or 15 spots with quality players who could get in this year.  Having a lot of scholarships available would have been a disaster.  I think this is because somehow, this class just didn't have a large pool of athletes who could qualify academically. 

It's hard to untangle causality here. Here's a possible counterfactual: we offer more guys in the beginning because we know we have more spots, and hence we end up with more guys.

SC had a similar problem as we did with finishing the class -- there are a fair number of guys, in retrospect, I think they'd wished they'd offered. It may be hard to manage a smaller class, because you're relatively worried about overshooting.