wasnt he really flaky on signing day and had to be wrangled in and away from tennessee or is that someone else i am thinking of
Beau died before camp Green turned out to still be Green, same for Simmons Khafre's promise went entirely unfilfilled Camp wunderkind Justin Olsen has barely seen the field Thought for sure we'd hit on at least one of those guys to complement Downs but we basically got the worst case scenario
Simmons almost feels like he's even taken a step back. Him and Khafre are the two biggest disappointments of that group to me.
wish they'd at least give a few snaps to blackwell to see what we have there but i am guessing he just isnt even close to ready physically
I probably would've had Emory as the most likely to make a jump, thought he looked like a perfect replacement for Beau last year
It's kind of funny looking back to the preseason chatter and reinterpreting accordingly "Josh Downs is by far our best receiver" : While it'd be true even with a solid corp around him, just how emphatically Mack would continuously say it should've put up red flags for the rest of the group "The defensive line is winning the battle in the trenches" : See I don't even doubt this happened, everybody just viewed it as growth from our defensive front instead of the regression of an OL that no longer had two bell cows with incredible patience/vision making them look good
mack brought up the portal completely unprompted to jones postgame. someone on ic noticed the reference and made a thread about it. guessing khafre wont be the only one and we're expecting some losses
I'm trying not to take much from the scrimmage, but he looks to be a solid versatile depth piece who fits in well with the rest of the squad
Don's close to the Rice primer is about as promising as you could hope for with how tight lipped their camp has been also Clyde Pinder's transferring out
pinder was the guy who was awol all signing day and brewster had to wrangle him back in and then immediately left right?
Despite whatever the hell is happening on the field, these two facts are quite impressive (per IC): - Rice is the fourth five-star landed by Brown in the last two classes - Rice and Shaw are the school's two highest-rated commitments in the last 15 recruiting classes
as long as recruiting momentum keeps I'm good fwiw I didn't get the impression during his post-commit interview that Zach's really all that close to Searels, don't think he'll be too upset when we let ole boy go
530's saying we're getting Greene too, would just be an insane Virginia haul we're basically the home team at this point
After a week off I’ve already started talking myself into us being competitive this weekend. “hard look at the program” “if you don’t want to be here, here’s the door” “Starting roles are up for evaluation” I am prepared to be completely let down as we get curb stomped but I will watch every second of it.
btw it seems like we're heading towards a Caleb/RJ starting backcourt which would be lovely, Ant's apparently been running point some in practice so that could take care of the depth issue with the first two options largely playing together
Atlanta United continues their playoff push with 3 matches left at 6:30 UNC/ND at 7:30 Game 4 at 8 don't think I've ever had a sports night like this
hoping we score 15 in the first inning so i can watch some of the heels if not it’s gonna be the first game missed in a decade for me
pretty sure that's the first time we've ever been successful rushing to the line for a play like that
I'd say I'm dumbfounded as to how Trey can grab a facemask on a receiver simply running his route but we all knew one way or another that 4th down was getting converted eventually resulting in 7
would've liked to have taken a quick shot at the end zone there but pleasantly surprised by that situational drive
shig inner monologue: "hey how about a home run for a td here" next two plays: 1) bomb to Downs overthrown 2) Chandler going off tackle to the house my point: nobody knows
Answer: Defense "Yes, Shig" "What is something that'd be cool to be good at again at some point?" Yes
Emery and Kristian Varner the latest to succumb to the portal purge Simmons really bums me out, I bought in pretty hard on him stepping up this year
Lol. All the freshmen who can play in 4 regular season games without burning a RS are about to get PT
it's becoming difficult to not get excited about this team the way Hube talks about them and how he wants to play, think this exhibition Friday could push me over the ledge I just can't help myself
So it seems pretty certain tonight we'll be seeing a starting five of Caleb RJ Kerwin Manek/Garcia Mondo if I had to guess it'd be Manek starting at the 4, just going by the way he's talked about in reports and by Hubert himself, don't really care who's considered the "1" here but I probably feel more comfortable with RJ in the ball handling department either way this lineup fucks imo
pleasantly surprised at merit over seniority, or I guess potential merit with Caleb and RJ edit: was a team vote apparently
If Caleb and RJ take a step forward and the team stays healthy I'm actually getting reasonably excited about this team.