HUNTINGTON
Coach Doc Holliday’s program has added six players as “blueshirts,” a designation for a student-athlete who is able to enroll to play immediately in the fall, although they are not initial counters on scholarship limits until 2017-18 school year.
FBS programs are using the “blueshirt” rule to aid depth, and the six who are joining Holliday’s Herd are scheduled to go on athletic scholarship in the fall semester as counters under the overall limit of 85. All are enrolled in classes this summer.
“We’re never finished recruiting,” Holliday said.
A seventh scholarship player moving into the program is 5-foot-9 cornerback Terry Richardson, a graduate transfer from Michigan who played in 15 games over three seasons for the Wolverines.