I agree with your stance. That's not much different than bringing in better freshman than the guys on the roster now.
Ramping up competition on a football roster for depth chart positioning whether it be by transfers or freshmen, doesn't create locker room divides. That's a load of hooey, and ramping up the competition up and down the roster is exactly what's happening.
Locker room divides happen when you have an organization of 100+ individuals that don't have common goals and effective leadership in maintaining discipline, respect for a chain of command, and planning and going about reaching those goals. It's absolutely ridiculous to think that every player on a football team is going to be friends with everybody else too, personalities are different, that's why people are people and a person is an individual, so personality conflicts creating locker room divides does happen, but that's a reflection on the abilty of chain of command, player leadership / coaching to maintain discipline, not the players personalities or abilities.
Losers gather as individuals in small groups and bitch about the system, winners assemble as a team and work toward their goals. - Bill Parcells.
These coaches we've got for a while on the tail end of their careers aren't rookies, and the next time a player transfers out of this program to another BCS level competition program because they're not getting the playing time they want, and think they'll have a better chance elsewhere because of competition level on the depth chart - it will be the first time, and that's all you need to be concerned about when it comes to JUCO players and transfers.
Welcome Mr. McNeal, to the class of 2012, and again, to all members of the 2012 class. Looking forward to seeing you on the field in a few months, with the other 100+ guys out there getting ready to kick the crap out of the UMass in their welcome to 1-A football.
