I thought he had a lot of candid comments addressing the bigger questions on this thread. Good read:
As mentioned, Morin and Key were a 1-in, 1-out prop. They would've kept both, but each felt that they wanted to be the man in their last year and both felt like slot was their best position (i.e. Morin didn't want to be on the outside). Morin committed first.
On the QB transfer: "And then the second thing is we wanted somebody who had played a lot in games who had a lot of game experience. And I just think sometimes what you get in practice isn't what you get in a game. And so if we could have somebody that had demonstrated success playing college football, and it really didn't matter the level whether it was FCS, group of Five, power Five, but we wanted somebody that had game experience, that had a proven ability in a football game against live competition that had had success. And it doesn't mean they haven't had some challenges, but those are people that know what it takes to prepare week in, week out."
I think that's a pretty direct acknowledgement of their misevaluation of the QB position this year, without throwing Griffis under the bus by name.
It also seems like a big part of their QB strategy was focused on retaining Hecklinski and they are really high on him. That's why they focused on a 1-year player at QB and they communicated with him before signing one to make sure there was no change in his opportunity here.
On the scholarship count, there were 2 players in the class that didn't sign yesterday (RB Clark and WR Reid) -- so they are officially greyshirts. Brings us into compliance with the roster. Since Clawson and RTQ mention taking 2-3 more transfers, it seems like there is an equal amount of attrition that we do not know about. Also this feels like it points to that attrition (Elmonus, Ranson, Chaney, etc.) - "but some of these guys have been here four-and-five years and didn't have established roles and we didn't invite them back that we already had kind of planned on them graduating and moving on and had replaced them with high school players already at some other positions."