Are we a "young team"

[MagnificentBastard]

Last night 95% of passing yds, 85% of rushing yds, 60% of receiving yds and 100% of touchdowns are attributed to Freshmen and Sophomores.

I'd have to say yes we are a young team

 

[Croom's knee socks]

What's scary is the worst offensive group (o line) is one of our more experienced groups.

 

[57stratdawg]

Damn. Hard not to like what you see from Mixon, Dear and Williams.

Gotta get Fitz settled in to tie it all together.

 

[engie]

We are young in talent. Not so much young in age. The 2012 class was great. The 2013 class was a disaster. The 2014 class looks pretty bad. The 2015 class was elite. I think last year will prove to be a disaster -- especially when it virtually amounts to self-imposed probation against the 85 limit numbers-wise. We will see on 2017 and going forward.

One thing that really irks me is how Mullen can't seem to stack two good classes together back-to-back. Had he closed on the guys we needed last year instead of the disaster of a week leading to signing day -- there would probably be a lot more excitement about the future. IMO -- it proves we are capable of recruiting on a pretty high level when we have strain. But it's like we have it for one year then relax the next season and gear up for the following one.

 

[Croom's knee socks]

We are young in talent. Not so much young in age. The 2012 class was great. The 2013 class was a disaster. The 2014 class looks pretty bad. The 2015 class was elite. I think last year will prove to be a disaster -- especially when it virtually amounts to self-imposed probation against the 85 limit numbers-wise. We will see on 2017 and going forward.

One thing that really irks me is how Mullen can't seem to stack two good classes together back-to-back. Had he closed on the guys we needed last year instead of the disaster of a week leading to signing day -- there would probably be a lot more excitement about the future. IMO -- it proves we are capable of recruiting on a pretty high level when we have strain. But it's like we have it for one year then relax the next season and gear up for the following one.

I think losing Tony Hughes really hurt last year's class. He was one of the few coaches that knew how to close.

 

[MagnificentBastard]

Not sure if it was planned this way but we are going heavy Juco this year in part because we can apply some of those to 2016 class

 

[57stratdawg]

Yeah. Some of that is the yin-yang of MS inroads on kids, but I agree. Someone needs to be held accountable for the 2016 signing class.

Hard to really speak about the D's future too. Switching from a 4-3 to a 3-4 is no easy feat. I feel better about our front 7 than our secondary though.

 

[57stratdawg]

Makes me nervous. JUCO isn't as talented as it use to be, even studs take 1/2 a year to adjust, this staff sucks and getting kids ready quickly.

Seems like a bad combination.

 

[engie]

Not sure if it was planned this way but we are going heavy Juco this year in part because we can apply some of those to 2016 class

We're scrambling now. And trying to fill the holes from the misses.

We should have gone JUCO-heavy like we are this year -- last year. I've got a roster-examining post somewhere that I broke this down back during recruiting and reached that conclusion. The fact that we didn't -- and ended up somewhere around 79 scholarship guys overall -- were things that raise bigger questions with Mullen for me than anything that has happened on the field.

We've only got 12 scholarship JRs right now. Compared to 17 scholarship SRs(2 of which will be eligible to return in Cleveland and Jiles). 17 scholarship Sophs. 17 rsFR. 19trFR. We should have signed 5 more JUCOs last year to balance the team out. Especially once we knew we were losing De'Runnya and Beniquez.

 

[DudyDog]

What's scary is the worst offensive group (o line) is one of our more experienced groups.

I view that as a good thing....for the future. I think we have better upside with our younger guys than the seniors.

 

[DudyDog]

We're scrambling now. And trying to fill the holes from the misses.

We should have gone JUCO-heavy like we are this year -- last year. I've got a roster-examining post somewhere that I broke this down back during recruiting and reached that conclusion. The fact that we didn't -- and ended up somewhere around 79 scholarship guys overall -- were things that raise bigger questions with Mullen for me than anything that has happened on the field.

We've only got 12 scholarship JRs right now. Compared to 17 scholarship SRs(2 of which will be eligible to return in Cleveland and Jiles). 17 scholarship Sophs. 17 rsFR. 19trFR. We should have signed 5 more JUCOs last year to balance the team out. Especially once we knew we were losing De'Runnya and Beniquez.

Come on Engie. It's hard to close out recruiting when you have all these interviews to go to. And think of the time he spent on the phone with his agent. Just wasn't enough time to fit recruiting in there.