Let's look at it by position: Offense first
WR: We will have 5 of the present recievers in two years, 1 SR., 3 Juniors, 1 Soph. The only speed threats are Taylor and Benavidas, Krosch, Rumble, and Senegal are possession recievers. I go with Freshman here for the next two years. We could have used a JC this year but will have good balance if we keep getting receivers like Taylor, Benavidas, and Senegal.
RB: We need a speed back now, a good JC would have helped this years, and is still a need next years. Freshmen are never the answer because RB's at this level have to block and most HS backs can't. That being said, blocking is also the weak spot for JC's as well. Morgan and Laporta are not bad backs, they are taking the heat this year because our line is playing so badly and our scheme is bad. I say you recruit a HS back each year and a JC in next years class for maturity.
OL: The scheme and coaching are obviously effecting this group, might even be some disention in the group. The only change in the group was Clayson, a kid who should be a red-shirt freshman playing guard rather than a Soph. playing LT. Not all of the pressure is coming from the left side, it is coming from everywhere. I still maintain against CW and EW, something we were doing was tipping our snap count. As I stated before, the rush changed as soon as Hill came in, they were not getting the great jump on our linemen and two off sides happened. Don't know what it was, but something changed. We will have 3 linemen from this group in two years, we need to recruit freshmen and JC's as needed, not wholesale JC recruiting.
TE: We will have all of our TE's back in two years. That being said, do you realize we don't have one TE that was offered a fullride out of HS. As I have seen over the years, freshmen TE's are not good blockers, Mennear was not, Winn was not, and Henry was not. It takes time to make young TE's blockers, might have as much to do with the line blocking at the linemen do. If we continue to get good freshmen, we do not need to go the JC route here, we just need to get good young freshmen.
QB: Now for our favorite scape goat. QB's are only as good as the supporting cast and are being affected the most with the poor decisions of the last two years. Our line is a shambles, our OC does not seem to know what is going on, and we did not bring in impact players until this last class recruiting. Yet for some reason beyond me, we all expect the QB to be a god. Hill, Blum, Evan, are what they are. Butler would do no better than those that did not quit. We will have to recruit freshman next year because no JC in his right mind is going to want to compete against Hill for a starting job, he has more than proved he will compete and is good at it. Any JC coming in unless he can redshirt is going to want to play right away, with two seniors who know the system, a sophmore who knows the system, a freshman who will know the system, another freshman coming in January, where are you going to put a JC. We need to worry more about getting a OC who can tutor a young line coach than we do recruiting a player who may or may not be able to beat out what is here. Focus on the strengths of your players, use these strengths to make a winning program.
