The league's presidents and chancellors voted at the SEC spring meetings a little more than six weeks ago to reduce the size of football signing classes to 25 players even though coaches unanimously wanted to keep it at 28. The change will force the league's coaches to adjust, although for University of Tennessee coach Derek Dooley, it won't be much different from the norm.
“I don't think this is going to change much how we do stuff,” the Volunteers' second-year coach said earlier this week, “because y'all know I've been about minimizing risk from the beginning and I'm not trying to have a lot of attrition, although you need to have some attrition.
“But I don't think it's going to change much. I think the good news is when we needed to sign a lot of guys, the rule wasn't in place, that's the last two years. So hopefully we'll kind of steady the ship, and if we can have a good, deep roster that doesn't have a lot of attrition, then the rule shouldn't affect you.”
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