How Many Starters Returning?

[jmufan999]

I'm going to be voting for the first time this year and I'd really like to know how many starters each team returns.

anyone have a link where i could find something like this? i can find the one for the CAA, someone posted that link the other day.

anyone have a site that has this kind of info (maybe for ALL FCS teams in one place)? i can attempt to track down each conference individually if i must, but just figured some of you might already know this info.

[StorminASU]

well I know GSU is returning 21 because I have heard about it constantly over the past several months..... xbangx

[Eaglesrus]

well I know GSU is returning 21 because I have heard about it constantly over the past several months..... xbangx

Actually it's more than that if you count specialists.:D

[sikolec]

I also did a little research and here is what I came up with for some of the teams (I hope it is accurate):

Old Dominion - 22
Georgia Southern - 21
Stephen F. Austin - 19
Northern Iowa - 18
Central Arkansas - 17
Eastern Washington - 16
U Mass - 16
Eastern Kentucky - 16
Appalachian State - 15
Sacramento State - 15
Southern Illinois - 15
William & Mary - 14
Montana State - 14
Liberty - 14
Cal Poly - 14
Wofford - 13
Richmond - 13
Lehigh - 13 (15 including 2 medical redshirts)
Western Illinois - 12
Delaware - 10
Villanova - 10

P.S. This is not counting specialists...

[TTUEagles]

TTU went 5-6 last year, ending up by beating top 10 Jacksonville St. "We" only lost 8 seniors, 3 who were back-ups, 2 missed over half the year due injuries. TECH returns 25 seniors and 26 juniors and only lost 2 D-lineman and 1 - DB that started every game last year (roughly, off of the top of my head). I think that warrants consideration for the Top 25. But, I would not be surprised and understand if no votes are earned...

[darell1976]

UND is extremely young just 7 starters return on offense and only 5 on defense. Lots of freshmen and sophomores that will grow up by 2012 when we start Big Sky play and become playoff eligible.

[StorminASU]

Actually it's more than that if you count specialists.:D

Hahahaha. So sorry I forgot about those specialists. xrolleyesx

[Go Lehigh TU Owl]

Lehigh is actually 15 counting 2 medical redshirts.

[JMUDuke2002]

JMU - 18
UD - 10
Maine - 15
UMass - 16
UNH - 10
ODU - 22 (not sure how this is possible since they lost 1 starter on offense and defense)
URI - 16
UofR - 14
Towson - 15
Nova - 10
WM - 14

[Jacked_Rabbit]

South Dakota State returns 7 starters on Offense and 6 on Defense. We've got some holes to fill on both sides of the line and in the secondary, which is never a good thing...

[Go Lehigh TU Owl]

I'm interested in the Ivy and NEC teams. If anyone has those teams info please post. I'm at work and really can't be surfing the net.

[CrazyCat]

From the BSC 2011 prospectus

O D SP

EWU 8 7 1
UM 7 7 1
MSU 8 5 2
NAU 5 4 2
UNC 6 5 2
PSU 9 9 3
SSU 8 7 1
WSU 6 7 1

[GannonFan]

JMU - 18
UD - 10
Maine - 15
UMass - 16
UNH - 10
ODU - 22 (not sure how this is possible since they lost 1 starter on offense and defense)
URI - 16
UofR - 14
Towson - 15
Nova - 10
WM - 14

How accurate is that? UD, at least by the game notes from the national title game, return 12 starters from that game alone (8 offense, 4 on defense), and that doesn't include spot starters (something less than 5 games started) throughout the year.

[Eaglesrus]

well I know GSU is returning 21 because I have heard about it constantly over the past several months..... xbangx

Yeah, the only problem for us is that we've recently learned that they are all talentless. In view of that, coupled with the ridiculously antiquated offense our coaches run, I expect an announcement that our season has been cancelled at any time now.

[JMUDuke2002]

How accurate is that? UD, at least by the game notes from the national title game, return 12 starters from that game alone (8 offense, 4 on defense), and that doesn't include spot starters (something less than 5 games started) throughout the year.

Comes from the CAA football preview.

http://www.nmnathletics.com/fls/8500/FBMedia/11Preview/2011CAAFBPreview.pdf

[StorminASU]

Hahaha. Well I heard something similar, only I also heard that there was no use playing Chatty this year because they've been playing with us all these past several years and now they've deciding they should start being serious. I think App is just gonna forfeit this year. No use. We both might as well forfeit to Samford too.


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[DG Cowboy]

McNeese has 15 position starters returning, not specialists. I think it is 8 on D and 7 on O.

[Keeper]

Actually have been working on this for weeks.
My spring stats page for FCS should be online by June 5th
and will list number of starters lost offense & defense for all teams on one page.

JMUfan999, I will PM you when it is finished.

[seantaylor]

You can make a case that GSU isn't losing any starters. Johnathan Bryant, who was a starter at Aback was lost before the season. Dion Dubose starting DE was lost mid season. Webb didn't even play in the playoffs, and Lavelle Westbrooks got a ton of snaps for Carson Hill. We are loaded.

[TheBisonator]

NDSU returns 18 starters, from what I've heard.

If I'm wrong, feel free to correct.

[darell1976]

NDSU returns 18 starters, from what I've heard.

If I'm wrong, feel free to correct.

http://www.wday.com/event/article/id/45522/

15 starters 7 Offense 8 Defense

[Jacked_Rabbit]

http://www.wday.com/event/article/id/45522/

15 starters 7 Offense 8 Defense


18 just sounds better...

[FargoBison]

18 just sounds better...

Well it is kind of deceiving since two players started at least a few games and played the bulk of a few others, but we do have four first time starters.

[FCS Go!]

I'm interested in the Ivy and NEC teams. If anyone has those teams info please post. I'm at work and really can't be surfing the net.

Duquesne 8/6
Bryant 9/8
Penn 3/4

That's all I've been able to find.

[UAalum72]

Albany returns seven starters on both offense and defense, and both kickers. Lost three OL and a WR on offense, lost DT, DE, CB and an OLB from defense.

[ngineer]

Sort of depends on how one classifies returning 'starters' since some teams rotate players at various positions, so being the guy on the field for the first snap does not necessarily mean he is "the" starter, but only for the package called for. Generally speaking, though, Lehigh has 14/15 returning (7 on defense and 7/8 on offense depending on how one looks at it). Regardless, we should be pretty well experienced.

[PaladinNation]

Furman 16 Starters returning

Offense (7): Colin Anderson (TE), Sederrik Cunningham (WR), Dakota Dozier
(LT), David Hendrix (WR), Ryan Lee (OT), Daniel Spisak (C), Tersoo Uhaa (RB)

Defense (7): Kadarron Anderson (LB), Colton Keig (DT), Josh Lynn (DE), Ryan
Steed (CB), Nathan Wade (FS), Chris Wiley (LB), Greg Worthy (LB)

You could realistically add Jerry Williams (RB) on offense as another starter returning.

On defense Shawn Boone or Ricky Lang replace Riley at DE, and Austin Williams or Cortez Johnson replace Griffin at DB.

Furman returns a ton of talent, now under what I expect to be a far better prepared coaching staff. Furman could be one of the most underrated FCS teams coming into the 2011 season.

[Keeper]

Albany returns seven starters on both offense and defense, and both kickers. Lost three OL and a WR on offense, lost DT, DE, CB and an OLB from defense.

Who is the starting WR lost?

[Keeper]

I'm interested in the Ivy and NEC teams. If anyone has those teams info please post. I'm at work and really can't be surfing the net.

(returning O/D)
Brown 5/6
Columbia 8/3
Cornell 8/7
Dartmouth 8/8
Harvard 6/6
Penn 3/4
Princeton 5/8
Yale 6/5

Albany 8/7
Bryant 7/6
CCSU 6/7
Duquesne 8/6
Monmouth 6/6
RMU 6/4
Sacred Heart 6/8
St Francis 9/9
Wagner 4/4

[DJKyR0]

http://www.wday.com/event/article/id/45522/

15 starters 7 Offense 8 Defense

This was only accurate as of the beginning of the 2010 season. For example, Cyrus Lemon was a senior safety but was replaced by true freshman Colton Heagle. The only true starters we lost were TE Landon Smith and OL Michael Arndt on offense, and DT Matthew Gratzek and MLB Matt Anderson. The rest of your figure was replaced by underclassmen as the season went on. Surprised WDAY wrote it as such.

[Gil Dobie]

NDSU had 7 Freshmen start at some point last season, and that did not include Punt Returner Ryan Smith and the long snapper.

[achrist70]

If we are going by starting at least one game in their careers than UNI has 29 players who have started at least one game. I believe the official number is 19 though.

[Gil Dobie]

If we are going by starting at least one game in their careers than UNI has 29 players who have started at least one game. I believe the official number is 19 though.

UNI is a borderline top 10 team, while NDSU will be lucky to get in the poll.

[Bam]

I also did a little research and here is what I came up with for some of the teams (I hope it is accurate):

Old Dominion - 22
Georgia Southern - 21
Stephen F. Austin - 19
Northern Iowa - 18
Central Arkansas - 17
Eastern Washington - 16
U Mass - 16
Eastern Kentucky - 16
Appalachian State - 15
Sacramento State - 15
Southern Illinois - 15
William & Mary - 14
Montana State - 14
Liberty - 14
Cal Poly - 14
Wofford - 13
Richmond - 13
Lehigh - 13 (15 including 2 medical redshirts)
Western Illinois - 12
Delaware - 10
Villanova - 10

P.S. This is not counting specialists...

EKU is correct:

9 on Offense
7 on Defense

[Milktruck74]

Sometimes returning starters can be a "not so good thing". Chattanooga has 10 returning starters on defense (1 Senior was drafter), however the defense was the weak point on last years team. With that said, I rarely put as much impact on the number of returning starters, as I put on impact players returning.

[SFA 93]

Stephen F. Austin would be 16

22 starters at the end of the year.

gone
QB- Moses (senior)
OL- Partsch (left team)
DE- Charles (senior)
DT- Warren (senior)
DE- Sternes (senior)
LB- Williams (senior)

[Keeper]

Here is the complete list from info I have gathered.
Some listings are from official website notes or prospectus,
others are accumulated from researching individual game starts.

Listed as starters lost rather that returning.
some are half-starters due to part-time start status.

(team = offense / defense)

Alabama A&M 5 6
Alabama State 1.5 1
Albany-NY 3 4
Alcorn State 3 6
Appalachian State 6 4
Arkansas-Pine Bluff 5 5
Austin Peay 3 3
Bethune-Cookman 5.5 4
Brown 6 5
Bryant 4.5 5
Bucknell 2 4.5
Butler 4 2
Cal Poly 4.5 3
Campbell 2 2
Central Arkansas 2 3.5
Central Connecticut 5 4
Charleston Southern 7 4
Chattanooga 5 1
Coastal Carolina 5 3
Colgate 4 5
Columbia 3 8
Cornell 3 4
Dartmouth 3 3
Davidson 3 3
Dayton 7 6
Delaware 4 8
Delaware State 3 5
Drake 1 4.5
Duquesne 3 5
Eastern Illinois 3 6
Eastern Kentucky 1.5 3.5
Eastern Washington 3 4
Elon 4 5
Florida A&M 2 3
Fordham 5 6
Furman 4.5 4
Gardner-Webb 4 4
Georgetown 5 4
Georgia Southern 0.5 2
Georgia State 0 1
Grambling 4 4
Hampton 4 6.5
Harvard 5 5
Holy Cross 5 5
Howard 0.5 2.5
Idaho State 3 5
Illinois State 2 4
Indiana State 3 1
Jackson State 6 5
Jacksonville 5.5 4
Jacksonville State 7 4
James Madison 3 2
Lafayette 3 3
Lamar 1 0
Lehigh 4 5
Liberty 4 5
Maine 4 3
Marist 4 6
Massachusetts 4 2
McNeese State 6 6
Mississippi Valley 3 3
Missouri State 5 7
Monmouth 5 5
Montana 4 4
Montana State 3 6
Morehead State 1 2
Morgan State 3 3
Murray State 3 2.5
New Hampshire 6 6
Nicholls State 0.5 1.5
Norfolk State 5 3.5
North Carolina A&T 6 4.5
NC Central 3 5
North Dakota 4 6
North Dakota State 4 3
Northern Arizona 6 7
Northern Colorado 5 6
Northern Iowa 3 1
Northwestern State 3 4
Old Dominion 1 1
Pennsylvania 8 7
Portland State 2 2
Prairie View 6 4
Presbyterian 5 2
Princeton 6.5 3
Rhode Island 2 5
Richmond 3 5
Robert Morris 5 7
Sacramento State 3 4
Sacred Heart 5.5 3
Sam Houston State 0 2
Samford 4 7
San Diego 4 4
Savannah State 1 4
South Alabama 2.5 2
South Carolina State 4.5 5
South Dakota 2 2
South Dakota State 4 4.5
SE Louisiana 5 9
SE Missouri State 8 6.5
Southern Illinois 4.5 4
Southern U 4 4
Southern Utah 2 5
St Francis-PA 2.5 2
Stephen F Austin 2.5 5
Stony Brook 3 3.5
Tennessee-Martin 2 4.5
Tennessee State 5 5
Tennessee Tech 1 3.5
Texas Southern 1 5
Texas State 4 5
The Citadel 2 3
Towson 4 4
UC-Davis 3 3
Valparaiso 5 4
Villanova 6 6
V M I 3.5 6
Wagner 7.5 7.5
Weber State 5 4
Western Carolina 1 6
Western Illinois 5 5
Wofford 6 5
Yale 5 3
Youngstown State 4 6

[achrist70]

Stephen F. Austin would be 16

22 starters at the end of the year.

gone
QB- Moses (senior)
OL- Partsch (left team)
DE- Charles (senior)
DT- Warren (senior)
DE- Sternes (senior)
LB- Williams (senior)

Having 16 starters returning is a little deceiving because those 6 were very important to last years team.

[SFA 93]

We will see.

I'm still thinking we maybe even better at QB this season with this system.

Partsch was just filling in for Austin Wright (who was the starter at the beginning of the season) who was injured, but now is back. Might be the reason he left.

But I'll agree that the defense takes a hit, especially on the line with the departure of Charles, Warren and Sternes, not to mention two time All-American LB Jabara Williams.

SFA is thin on defensive linemen.

[katstrapper]

Sam Houston returns 20 of 22 starters... plus all kicking specialists return.

[Keeper]

UPDATE: Montana State just lost their 1000 yd running back to academics for 2011