2026 O-Line

[Offthedome]

I can confirm as much. They apparently think he’s very good at the mental aspects of the position. Between him and Stewart we have ale good potential there.

Hawn is a very smart guy. I can see him excelling at that part of the game.

 

[IthacaMatt]

I think it was a combination of coaching and a lack of talent. I’m excited to see how Cooper develops and whether he can earn early playing time, similar to BIG Byron Washington. I also expect some reinforcements to arrive through the transfer portal. And Jojo White is very intriguing — I could see him getting on the field early as well.

“BIG” Byron Washington?
Is that you, RutgersAl??

 

[IthacaMatt]

By the time September hits he’ll be close to 300 if not a little over.

I could see him redshirting till next year, he has nice feet and is able to move well but needs to work on strength like you said

You can’t gain 30 lbs of good weight that fast.

 

[IthacaMatt]

144% THIS.

It was shocking how many times we’d have unimpeded defenders making a beeline into the backfield, while one or more OL stood around blocking air.

“Just” upgrading our OL play from turrible to average will be a massive improvement.

Keeping PB Angeli clean and upright will go a long way towards another record setting season.

And creating actual holes for the RB’s will make us that much harder to defend.

After DC, new OL coach was possibly the 2nd most important and impactful “portal” addition.

… which will also hopefully make the fact that we also added viable QB2 & QB3 a luxury and not a necessity.

Not sure how good the portal QBs are. We didn’t get the guy we wanted most.

 

[Ttk.gman2]

“BIG” Byron Washington?
Is that you, RutgersAl??

Bro what?

 

[IthacaMatt]

Bro what?

There was this poster from Big East days called RutgersAl. The guy’s a legend and came to a couple tailgates.

He was a rabid Rutgers football fan. If you’re old enough to remember the Iraq War, they had this media guy for Saddam Hussein’s government, basically saying “All is well!” as we bombed the hell out of their country.

It was reminiscent of that scene during the riot at the end of Animal House. “All is well!”

Anyway, Al was always over-enthusiastic about every new Rutgers recruit, back in the Pasqualoni days when we beat them something like 17 times in a row.

Al always used to call all of their linemen “Big Bob Smith”, or “Big Dakota Jones”, or whoever. Every single time! That’s what made it funny - along with the fact that they never used to beat us back in those days.

So that’s the “deep cut” I was making.

 

[007]

Not sure how good the portal QBs are. We didn’t get the guy we wanted most.

Who did we want most?

 

[LpoolNative]

Bro what?

It’s you… isn’t it…

 

[Ttk.gman2]

It’s you… isn’t it…