1) When or what is your threshold for playing this year for the next year(s)? There are approximately 20 odd seniors or redshirt seniors in our contributing rotation right now. They won’t be helping you much if any in 2023 or beyond… (defense in particular is set to depart a bunch of experience one way or the other). Or in other words, if you think ’22 tastes bad so far; and it has, how do you think ’23 and ’24 will taste if you do not ‘player develop’ them, now? – bourbonstreet

Chris Coleman: Good, fair question. However, I’d like to point out that many of those seniors have a year of eligibility left due to COVID. Justin Fuente didn’t count 2020 when he filled out the roster last year, but Brent Pry did. Thus, a guy like Norell Pollard was listed as a true sophomore in 2021, and now he’s listed as a senior in 2022. The reality is that he’s in his fourth year in the program, but he’s eligible to play another season in 2023.

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