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[QUOTE="SoBristol, post: 394093, member: 485"]
On the "youth movement", it is comparative thing.  Every team will have a few newer names step up over the course of a season and our list (Desir, Eskridge, Trudo) has to be shorter than any rival.  Most of ours newbies are older guys (MPB, Broyld, Kobena & Clark aren't 19 year old frosh).    We haven't recruited talent that can step in as wonderkind frosh (you might compare Maryland) -- our guys develop and tend to emerge as juniors.  And that is fine.
I agree that the uptempo scheme has made a difference.  It fits what we have (no maulers in the OL, but experience in all playmaking spots).  We needed that upgrade in the OL (Macky 2012 is a big upgrade; Hickey is a big upgrade; and the right side of the OL can pass block -- whereas the 2011 version was a frequent sieve); we needed Sales back and development of West to round out the WR corps; Nassib has shown improvement; Smith has emerged as better than Bailey at this point in the season.  We may not have high end talent, but we have balance and just enough depth.  Credit to the [B]new[/B] offense; but sure helps to have RS-senior experience in key roles and not a single underclassmen in a key role on offense other than Trudo.
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