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Originally Posted by Scully60
We have way too much coming back for next season to "struggle". Sorry, but that is a hard sell (get it m_sell31?) that Thornhill, Warrick, St. Dik, Baldwin, and Nwagbuo are irreplaceable.
Trevor Anderson was All-Big East defensive end. Ishmyl Johnson will more than likely beat out Brandon Long for the other DE position. OG Nwagbuo can't be replaced by Antonio Jeremiah, Oren Wilson, or Michael Jordan? Justin Kershaw is back.
Seriously, were you impressed with that tackling of Thornhill during his career? Do you think he covered a lot of field with that 4.7 40 speed? How does he become irreplaceable? Eric Gordon and Greg Jones are back. You can poo poo true freshman all you want, but where would our defense have been without the contributions of true freshman Greg Jones. There is no reason another freshman linebacker couldn't do the same thing.
DB's. We have a ton of potential players here. I happen to think CL Rucker will be an outstanding corner before he leaves. His freshman year was a good learning experience for him. Wiley is back. I think Rod Jenerette can fill in well for Warrick. You may see playing time from guys like Burrell or Trawick. Davis-Clark, Weaver, and Henderson are back at corner as well.
Offensively, I have only one concern and that is the offensive line positions. I think Rousher did a bang-up job teaching the group to run-block, and I think guys like Ceroni, Moss. and Bacon can fill-in nicely next to Nitchman, Martin, and Miller. I see no significant drop-off here.
We are loaded at receiver. We will not have a problem finding good receivers between Dell, Curry, Cunningham, Smith, and B. White.
Our running game will be good. Ringer is back and Caulcrick will be replaced by Anderson, Ray, or Ingram. I'm sorry, but this "thunder and lightening" backfield is not irreplaceable.
Hoyer will have one full year of playing experience under his belt. He will be much more consistent next season.
The greatest reason we will not struggle next year is because the players have one more year in the system. They now know what to do, and can play with confidence.
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Hey, your entitled to your opinion, but I'm not going to hit the Kool-Aid as hard as you man. I still say we lose to much. I know we lose players every year, and someone new has to step up. But
is not bringing in many JUNCO's for immediate help so we will be playing a lot of inexperienced sophomores, redshirt freshmen, and true freshmen in some very important spots. We are very young, you can't argue with that. I think 6-6 is to be expected, 7-5 with a bowl game is a success 8-5 if we can win the bowl game.
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Jehuu Caulcrick
Probably replaceable but a big loss.
Devin Thomas, Kellen Davis, Eric Andino
In DT and KFD we lose over 50% of our passing O I believe I read. We have numbers at WR but DT isnt going to be replaced by a True freshmen, or Redshirt Freshmen player in year one. There will be a drop off. TE position is pretty much decimated.
Mike Gyetvai, Pete Clifford, John Masters, Kenny Shane
Not an all-star group but 4 players who played a lot for us this season. Very questionable depth for next season on the O-line
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Jonal Saint-Dic, Ervin Baldwin, Ogemdi Nwagbuo
Thats 3/4 our starting DL
SirDarean Adams, Rob Tabatchnick, Kaleb Thornhill
3 of our top 6 or 7 LB's who all started at some point during the season. Replacement are pretty much all guys who have yet to play a down or true freshmen.
Travis Key, Nehemiah Warrick
These two are probably the most replaceable but still a pair of starters.