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Message: [QUOTE="SoBristol, post: 330956, member: 485"] There is something to what you say, but I wouldn't take it to an extreme. You win or lose with your top 18 guys on offense, and your top 18 guys on defense, plus maybe 10 guys who contribute on specials. Your better frosh (except OL and DL) are going to break into the two-deep over the course of the season -- especially if you are a team in rebuilding mode. If you are aggressive, you find some JUCOs to fill in quickly. As I look at our current team, the only guys who were "program players" and had impact only as upperclassmen are Stevens, West due to injuries, maybe Robinson at DE and Vaughan. It isn't so much we have needed more bodies as we needed better recruiting, earlier in Marrone's tenure, at RB, WR and LB. If we had that help last year, we would be coming off a bowl season. [/QUOTE]