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Re: UNI fooball '09 = National title contenders?
Great summary! Is it August yet??????
Originally posted by UNIAlum95
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Clearly the offense should be potent. I would hope to be scoring like we did in '07 next season.
QB - Grace / Davis - I don't think you can go wrong there. Given Farley's tendencies, the job is Grace's baring injury. He goes with the upperclassmen almost exclusively.
RB - Law/Brookins/Anderson - I don't see a feature back system next year. I see a lot of split carries. Farley is very high on Anderson.
WR - Hoard/Turner/Collins/Herring/Eyman - Are there enough balls to go around. Talented and deep just like this year.
TE - Oordt/Mahaffey/Gilson - Good blockers in Mahaffey & Gilson and great hands in Oordt.
OL - Teply/Steichen/Howard/Fiacco/Zlab/Limbaugh/Tecklenburg (6'8 330 R-Fr) - We're okay here.
Defense is a question mark. The line looks like it could reload as there is talent and some depth available depending on some shuffling and how some of the young recruits develop. Ruffin will need someone opposite him to throw off the double teams but I look for him to line up all over next year to confuse the offense.
DL - Ruffin/Herrig/Boothby/Kinney - Need to identify some depth here with underclassmen and or JUCO.
LB - Thompson/Mahoney/Fort/Cason - I'm hoping Mahoney decides to do graduate work next year and return. Otherwise we've got two big holes to fill. The staff is high on Fort. Need some underclassmen help for depth.
CB - Wow. Where do you start here. Criag James, Terrell McBride, Joe Johnson, Andre Martin, Garrett Scott, etc are all unproven commodities. This will be priorty one in finding a transfer. Would be good to get one shutdown type corner in the mold of Benny Sapp so the safety can cheat the other way.
S - Canady/Scott are unproven as well. The secondary will be a complete overhaul.
Special Teams. Hallgren and Black are back for kicking duties. Collins and Herring will continue to excite us with their return abilities.
We'll need to work on the defensive side of the ball for a few new players. Can't wait to see what this all starts to look like in the spring.
QB - Grace / Davis - I don't think you can go wrong there. Given Farley's tendencies, the job is Grace's baring injury. He goes with the upperclassmen almost exclusively.
RB - Law/Brookins/Anderson - I don't see a feature back system next year. I see a lot of split carries. Farley is very high on Anderson.
WR - Hoard/Turner/Collins/Herring/Eyman - Are there enough balls to go around. Talented and deep just like this year.
TE - Oordt/Mahaffey/Gilson - Good blockers in Mahaffey & Gilson and great hands in Oordt.
OL - Teply/Steichen/Howard/Fiacco/Zlab/Limbaugh/Tecklenburg (6'8 330 R-Fr) - We're okay here.
Defense is a question mark. The line looks like it could reload as there is talent and some depth available depending on some shuffling and how some of the young recruits develop. Ruffin will need someone opposite him to throw off the double teams but I look for him to line up all over next year to confuse the offense.
DL - Ruffin/Herrig/Boothby/Kinney - Need to identify some depth here with underclassmen and or JUCO.
LB - Thompson/Mahoney/Fort/Cason - I'm hoping Mahoney decides to do graduate work next year and return. Otherwise we've got two big holes to fill. The staff is high on Fort. Need some underclassmen help for depth.
CB - Wow. Where do you start here. Criag James, Terrell McBride, Joe Johnson, Andre Martin, Garrett Scott, etc are all unproven commodities. This will be priorty one in finding a transfer. Would be good to get one shutdown type corner in the mold of Benny Sapp so the safety can cheat the other way.
S - Canady/Scott are unproven as well. The secondary will be a complete overhaul.
Special Teams. Hallgren and Black are back for kicking duties. Collins and Herring will continue to excite us with their return abilities.
We'll need to work on the defensive side of the ball for a few new players. Can't wait to see what this all starts to look like in the spring.
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