We don't have to wait to see them until August camp." I'm excited for spring ball, to get the guys out on the grass – that's another thing about this class, we get to work with them right now. We answered some needs that we had and I think we've made ourselves better at several positions. And to the credit of our program and to the credit of our coaching staff, we've had very little movement, so I think that's a credit to our program. Our super seniors have all graduated and moved on, and everybody else comes back. So, that's the reason it will be 10-to-12 people. "We thought it would be in our best interest to try to be as old as we could be in this football program and to utilize junior college recruiting and the transfer portal for this small class. But we've got a really good nucleus of young talent. Some of them will be elevated to sophomore status for next fall. Due to the pandemic, the majority of those players are still here and are still freshmen.
"When we decided to go Division I two years ago, we immediately signed 24 freshmen in our first class and 15 freshmen in our second class.
We've added seven transfers and we'll look to add another three-to-five in the May-June cycle, again through the transfer portal and junior college transfers," head coach Todd Whitten said. "I think we have a really good group with such a small class. Tarleton announced on Wednesday, the first day of the NCAA Division I football regular signing date period, that seven players have joined the program, all of whom are transferring from other colleges. STEPHENVILLE, Texas – With a Tarleton football team already loaded with young talent and a wide departing senior class, the Texans did something different on this year's National Signing Day – they simply added transfers.