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Excellent thread OP. I have always maintained that we do not put nearly enough emphasis on OL. Your comment about Scaife and Reed being great prospects and the need to repeat that type of haul year after year is spot on. It just seems that our program has always lacked that emphasis on OL recruiting and development. It almost seems as though we are happy doing the bare minimum in that regard and that must be addressed going forward because you can have multiple studs at QB, WR,RB and TE but if you have no OL your offense will go nowhere.
Defensively , Kul's laziness notwithstanding, our problems with depth on the DL particularly DT have not been for a lack of effort or focus as even during our darkest times we have always managed to recruit good to very good DEs. The problem has been consistent DT recruiting. Currently we have a stable of very good DEs and I see nothing to lead me to believe that won't continue. Again the problem is developing any semblance of depth at DT. This problem was magnified under Golden with his ridiculous 2 gap read and react scheme which no DT worth a **** wanted to play in. What really puzzled me during the first 2 years of the Richt regime was why we still could not recruit elite DTs. Looking back we know Kul just didn't want to recruit yet the problem persists. Since I'm a reasonable guy, I'm going to give Simpson his time to show us what he's got. Frankly I have a good feeling about the guy and think he will do a good job for us. The next 2 classes are absolutely crucial to establishing depth along the entire DL. I think we currently have some very good yet underrated prospects committed for 2019 and some potentially great ones for 2020 so we will see.
I think we will restock and build great depth on the DL. It's the OL that worries me the most both in the short and long term. Is Searles the right guy? I'm not sure. I am sure that we must sign Evan Neal and at least one more great prospect on the OL. If we can build a great offensive line and create legitimate depth, this offense will be explosive. Richt has taken a few missteps. He can recover but recruiting on both lines must be dramatically improved.
Defensively , Kul's laziness notwithstanding, our problems with depth on the DL particularly DT have not been for a lack of effort or focus as even during our darkest times we have always managed to recruit good to very good DEs. The problem has been consistent DT recruiting. Currently we have a stable of very good DEs and I see nothing to lead me to believe that won't continue. Again the problem is developing any semblance of depth at DT. This problem was magnified under Golden with his ridiculous 2 gap read and react scheme which no DT worth a **** wanted to play in. What really puzzled me during the first 2 years of the Richt regime was why we still could not recruit elite DTs. Looking back we know Kul just didn't want to recruit yet the problem persists. Since I'm a reasonable guy, I'm going to give Simpson his time to show us what he's got. Frankly I have a good feeling about the guy and think he will do a good job for us. The next 2 classes are absolutely crucial to establishing depth along the entire DL. I think we currently have some very good yet underrated prospects committed for 2019 and some potentially great ones for 2020 so we will see.
I think we will restock and build great depth on the DL. It's the OL that worries me the most both in the short and long term. Is Searles the right guy? I'm not sure. I am sure that we must sign Evan Neal and at least one more great prospect on the OL. If we can build a great offensive line and create legitimate depth, this offense will be explosive. Richt has taken a few missteps. He can recover but recruiting on both lines must be dramatically improved.
