At Texas A&M, roster management doesn’t mean what I think it means

Honestly, this just blows my mind ($$).

Texas A&M has lost 25 scholarship players in one offseason. Eighteen were blue-chip recruits. Eight were top-100 recruits, including five-stars Denver Harris and Chris Marshall. Seven were freshmen from their top-ranked 2022 recruiting class. Not one entered the portal, changed their mind and withdrew.

To their credit, the Aggies have picked up two touted transfers, North Carolina cornerback Tony Grimes and Florida State safety Sam McCall, and are pursuing several more. But if you want to compare this to turnover margin and put it in those terms, no other FBS program comes close to Texas A&M’s minus-23 transfer margin.

At least 16 of their departing players are going to be on Power 5 rosters in 2023.

On top of that, it’s not as if Jimbo pulled in another giant recruiting class this time.  TAMU’s bunch is rated 13th nationally, behind Florida, just to give you an idea.

Huge net loss of talent, but at least they’ve got Bobby Petrino coming in to make up that difference.

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