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[QUOTE="HRE Otto IV, post: 1841107, member: 5685"]
The 81 was in year three. The next year was a 66, is that clearly improving? Is 15 spots clearly an outlier? Even if you remove the two "outliers" (which isn't really fair since one is poor and the other is good) Shafer's D didn't rank much higher than Bullough's D.

We did lose a lot of guys after 2010 but still had 11 upperclassmen in the 2 deep. The problem was the JR class was the transition class which happens when you change coaches, which is not GRob's nor Marrone's fault.

I wouldn't say we were undersized at all on the DL. We did lack depth. There was nothing at DT after the starters. Our starting DEs were hurt all year. Sharpe not developing until his SR year really hurt as well.

The LBs were a problem, Vaughan started and we rotated two true freshman at the other LB spot.

But the group that played the worst that season were the DBs. There really was no excuse for that. Our SS and FS were both returning guys. We had a SR CB and three young CBs who had talent and prior time on the field. Which is why IMO Marrone brought in Donnie Henderson over Shafer's head to fix the problem.

Shafer was a decent DC, as was Bullough. IMO Shafer was the better guy to have back there. But the OP made it sound like Shafer was Don Brown and Bullough was GRob, which isn't the case.
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