2014 Football Team

[BiscuitEater]

Sorry if I'm the only one that just realized how little we will lose, numbers wise, due to graduation this year. I was reading the OSU thread below .. then looked at the roster and noticed that we only have 10 SRs on the team. Lose five with 3L - Whitley, Skinner, Russell, Perkins, Jackson; one with 2L - Swedenburg and 4 that have contributed for one year - Holley, Harrison, Siddoway and Autry.

Meanwhile, the JR class is huge - 20 with 2L + two key JC transfers.

Bodes well for next year.

 

[Heawww]

Been saying for a while that this year and next are going to be great years to be an MSU fan. We're going to win some games we typically don't win. Yeah we don't have many technical Srs. this year but we have a ****-load of RJrs. with 4 years in the program.

Only thing that concerns me about our football program right now is the OL in 2015. Hopefully the JUCOs we're signing in the 2014 class can take care of that gap. Especially since we're playing @ Southern and home against Louisiana Tech to start off that year. Really want to bury both of those teams. If we can do that, that'll be two MSU QBs in Russell and Prescott who would have had great careers at MSU.

Perhaps the curse will be broken?

 

[kired]

We're going to have some grown men on the lines. Oline could have four 5th year seniors and a 4th year junior starting (Clausell, Day, Robinson, Malone, Muniz / Beckwith). Dline will have 5th year seniors in Virges and Eulls, and 4th year seniors in Preston Smith & PJ Jones.

Combine that with a true dual threat QB, veteran RB & WRs, talented young defensive players (Quay, Nick James, Jones & the Browns)... there's a lot to be excited about in 2014.

 

[Heawww]

It will certainly test the theory that OL (assuming a baseline talent level) can all be useful with age and maturity. 4 of those starters were 2 star guys out of high school, and Robinson seems to be a 2 star masquerading as a 4 star (he began as a 5 star). Beckwith was a walk-on.

I cannot state how important is was that Gabe Jackson came back for this year. Huge.