hawaiicane
Thunderdome
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During Hurricane Hotline.
Smart: He finally publicly recognized and emphasized what i've been screaming about for months now - the need to stock up on OL this year. He said they were looking for 3-4 (i think 4 is the BARE MINIMUM).
Dumb: He reiterated a class of only 16ish kids. I'm looking at the roster right now and we've got plenty of room for 20-22 kids. If we're about to undergo sanctions, saving schollies is the most retarded thing you can do...you have to FRONTLOAD and make the team as YOUNG as you can so you can cushion yourself against the future reductions and still have talented players around 3-4 years down the line. That is what USC did. THat means being ruthless about getting rid of upperclass JAGs who are just gonna take up precious schollies and who wont even be around when we really need them 3-4 years down the line.
We have 81 schollie kids right now, 11 seniors. That means bare minimum we should have 15 schollies available. Then we've got several JAGs that can be let go,4th year JRs now that will graduate that we can let go easily, other attrition candidates like Thompson and Henderson.
Thompson (do we really want a kid that is only a part time player taking up a full schollie?)
Henderson (i doubt he sticks around and will go pro)
J Johnson (4th year JR, MIA from team)
C White (4th year JR)
A Cleveland (dude's fallen off a cliff)
Porter (will never stay healthy)
Grimble (can't consistently beat out true FR)
Robinson (already had major beef with staff, 4th year JR already)
Cain (4th year JR, where is he?)
That's 9 kids already with questionable futures here. Not all will be attrited of course but if even only half of them leave, that will allow us a 20ish man class. And we could really ***king use those schollies to beef up the OL, S, and other positions of need.
Smart: He finally publicly recognized and emphasized what i've been screaming about for months now - the need to stock up on OL this year. He said they were looking for 3-4 (i think 4 is the BARE MINIMUM).
Dumb: He reiterated a class of only 16ish kids. I'm looking at the roster right now and we've got plenty of room for 20-22 kids. If we're about to undergo sanctions, saving schollies is the most retarded thing you can do...you have to FRONTLOAD and make the team as YOUNG as you can so you can cushion yourself against the future reductions and still have talented players around 3-4 years down the line. That is what USC did. THat means being ruthless about getting rid of upperclass JAGs who are just gonna take up precious schollies and who wont even be around when we really need them 3-4 years down the line.
We have 81 schollie kids right now, 11 seniors. That means bare minimum we should have 15 schollies available. Then we've got several JAGs that can be let go,4th year JRs now that will graduate that we can let go easily, other attrition candidates like Thompson and Henderson.
Thompson (do we really want a kid that is only a part time player taking up a full schollie?)
Henderson (i doubt he sticks around and will go pro)
J Johnson (4th year JR, MIA from team)
C White (4th year JR)
A Cleveland (dude's fallen off a cliff)
Porter (will never stay healthy)
Grimble (can't consistently beat out true FR)
Robinson (already had major beef with staff, 4th year JR already)
Cain (4th year JR, where is he?)
That's 9 kids already with questionable futures here. Not all will be attrited of course but if even only half of them leave, that will allow us a 20ish man class. And we could really ***king use those schollies to beef up the OL, S, and other positions of need.
