That's funny. In other words, everyone that stays was asked to stay and everyone that left made that decision because we didn't want them. You can't lose that way.
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IDK Blue, I'm okay with them staying classy and not burning bridges.
Yes, we all want the "meat" of what is going on, but no reason to edge these kids on to hurt themselves permanently. JMO.
The market for Dline and Oline will be crazy. I wouldn’t get too worked up about loosing guys that didn’t produce. From a scheme perspective figuring out a NG production is tough because in their scheme they a space eaters not really disrupters.
Don’t get worked up about lower lever guys focus on their production especially the skilled guys. There are some really good lower level interior lineman. Tackles are a different animal but boy are you going to pay to land a really good one or two then they have to stay healthy.
There is a freshman RB from ULM that hit the portal that is legit.
Don’t get worked up about lower lever guys focus on their production especially the skilled guys. There are some really good lower level interior lineman. Tackles are a different animal but boy are you going to pay to land a really good one or two then they have to stay healthy.
There is a freshman RB from ULM that hit the portal that is legit.
Who could blame him. By end of year we had him playing inside lb. Going from nickel to a way undersized ilb is a rough ask. Its a big part of why our late season run defense was basically non-existent.
Massive loss. He was the key to everything on run d. Each of the last two seasons, when he got injured out run d went from elite to wet paper towel. Deonne got all the pub but silver did all the work.
I saw a poster ask how many stats he had, but that isnt the goal of that position. It was to demand doubles, which he definitely did.
If true simply unacceptable. Can you imagine a player from Alabama saying that to Saban,or UGA to Smart.
Don't know if I agree on it being a massive loss. Silver played a whole bunch of snaps and the run D was pitiful pretty much all year. Which means he was getting blasted off the line a lot (and Deone definitely wasn't helping matters...probably trying to not get hurt).
Silvers was a good player. I’d like to keep a guy like that on the roster for sure.
You obviously do not understand football. a NT in a 3-4 defense is never going to put up huge stats. It is their job to demand double teams and clog running lanes.
But, with the woeful performance of our rush defense, especially in the 2nd half of the season, was Silver (or anyone, for that matter on the DL) 'clogging running lanes'? Certainly not all on one guy, but the DL was quite a bit less than expected this year, imo.
What UK tries to do(operative word here is "tries") is use the DL to tie up the opponents OL to free up LBs to make tackles. Doesn't always work.
I get that. But, my point was - looking at our defensive rushing stats the last half of the season, was ANYONE clogging running lanes? Sure didn't seem like it as multiple teams ran for > 250 yards against our defense.
As I said, the operative word here is "tries." Not always effective.
Get up into the MAC and bring in some of those tough o@d linemen that were overlooked and have developed.
Run d was elite till later. That later just so happened to coincide with him getting slowed by injury. Same thing happened to us last year when he got hurt.
Throwing money at things, especially young people that don't have anything by which to measure it, is never on its own a good solution.
As a coach, you set the tone. You set the culture. You either work your ass off, execute, or you sit. I dgaf what you get paid.
That's what makes NIL difficult. If you want higher rated players, you have to dish out the dough. If you want people to dish out the dough, the players they sponsor need to play and be featured. Can't play or feature them and have great results unless they work at it and execute.
That's the clusterfk if you're not a high profile school.
Exactly. And this year we'd lost the depth behind them very early.
Ford is leaving. No big deal. When he came in, i told people here i never saw him contributing. If the pac 10 pass rush was too fast for him, he stood no chance in the sec.
Let's hope they can keep Josiah Hayes. He is a big guy and better than Silver when healthy. Silver is lazy and didn't plau hard on any down. Still, he is a big athletic body, and this type of player is hard to find.
We should have a dedicated staff member or two cataloging every televised snap of MAC football.
We border (to the South) four MAC states.
How many Josh-Hines Allen’s ended up in the MAC before they fully developed?
OK, that’s a tall hurdle, but still, talk about a natural field of opportunity. More than half the MAC is 5 hours or less on I-65 or I-75.
What culture is that? Please tell me we aren't dealing with a large contingent more interested in Xbox and gummies than film and S&C.
I don't know about that. Just said the coaches had already comprised a list of the players they want to stay and a list of players they will advise to find another school. Looks like we only lost two players in our new class and added a couple we did not expect to get. So that is two legitimate classes back to back that has a lot of star power in them. Outside of too many OL and DL projects in those two classes all the other positions, when those two classes are put together, look very strong. It is the OL mostly we continue to struggle bringing in near enough 4 star players. We are getting beat for most of the best linemen. And the QB situation continues to haunt us.
What is ironic is that NIL was supposed to benefit the student-athlete. And for many kids it may do that ... I know one kid making 10K a year to play D1 baseball. Which he wouldn't have gotten without NIL.
However, the actors that are benefiting the most are the big pocket teams as others have stated more eloquently.
However, the actors that are benefiting the most are the big pocket teams as others have stated more eloquently.
There has always been big news about the tight end room and most of them leave or never get used. We have been listening to Marrow for years and keep signing them year after year and never hear much about them. Now Anderson is leaving, seems like two years is all were going to get out of these 4- and 5-star tight ends.
Absolutely. That was the final domino that crushed our run d. They slid afari inside where he is much too light and bad no clue. Pop was literally slow.
All they had to do was run wide zone or tackle gap stuff away from a hobbled silver. Thats why it started killing us.
I thought he could be like some of the pro TE's that are thrown to multiple times a game. Like Iowa uses their TE's. Can probably only recall a handful of times he was even thrown to. No way for us to know how good a lot of the TE's could be. This was the year to use them a lot because of lack of WR talent.
Marrow and OC talked him and the other TEs up leading up to the season only to, once again, largely ignore them as receivers. Anderson was supposed to be a stud but Kattus got more snaps for some reason. Either KA was grossly underused or he just wasn't as good as advertised.
Dingle got all Anderson's snaps, which is pathetic considering how bad dingle played.
Thought he’d be a good one after his UofL performance last year but then this year he couldn’t see the field. Gotta assume this offense was so bad even decent playmakers would have seen time. Guess the 2023 UofL performance was an aberration and/or he just didn’t improve. Good luck!
