I tried to post this a few days ago to get some numbers thrown out there...
At the very least, even if we bring in 25 kids this year and that pushes us to literally 85 scholarship players, we're still going to bring in quite a few kids.
We have 15 scholarship players who will be leaving (eligibility expires). Moreover, we are probably looking at around two players moved to medical scholarship. Chris Lett is a possibility and Cody Davis (shoulder), I think, is a lock, and there could be someone else. Then, you have to factor in the fact that, at the very least, we're probably looking at two or three guys leaving the program of their own volition.
Moreover, some of the mods around here have speculated that the attrition number could be much, much higher. One of them, I believe, said he thought around eight players sounded about right.
Even if no one leaves in that fashion -- extremely unlikely, but still -- we should have around 17-18 spots open, and we would probably oversign with about 20 to take into account the academic casualties. And if the attrition gets really bad, we may very well sign 25 players or more again in 2007.
Just how big it will be will depend on how many players leave over the course of the next year, but at the very least it won't be as small as the one LSU21 was talking about that they had to sign several years back. At bare minimum, we'll bring in 19-20 commitments, and likely many more.