JONESBORO — Wednesday marked the beginning of college football’s first early signing period, but Arkansas State University Coach Blake Anderson said it mostly helped his program catch up on lost time.
Anderson, who just finished his fourth season at ASU, said the football program is still recovering from a stretch of five coaches in five seasons from 2010 to 2014 that left the team with 54 scholarship players, 31 shy of what the NCAA permits in the Football Bowl Subdivision.
The Red Wolves had 72 scholarship players this season, but Anderson said the team was “decimated with graduation last year,” having lost 28 seniors, 14 combined offensive and defensive starters.