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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 4734812, member: 40"]
You're the one who brought up Cecil / Drew Allen -- what did they have to do with the secondary?  Shrader is an example of a transfer who completely transformed our team's potential.  I didn't have to wait two years to make that evaluation or be excited about him coming in, because I could see from his Mississippi State film from his time starting as a true frosh that he was a playmaker, despite his flawed throwing mechanics.  And he was.

And I predicted back then even before he arrived that it wouldn't take him long to unseat DeVito.  It wasn't a retrospective judgement.  In fact, I wish we'd started him earlier two years ago, because I think we would have beaten Rutgers and gotten to a bowl in that 5 win season [I also think we got robbed @ Florida State, but that's another discussion].

We lost two starters in the secondary.  We had to replace them, and the staff went out and landed guys with elite offers.

What else do you expect / want them to do?  Gould, Bellamy, Martin, and Farmer was the best possible pivot the coaches could accomplish, and they knocked it out of the park, frankly.

And yes -- I believe that those four > Carter / Duce in terms of both quality and depth.

Those two were losses, no argument there, but the sky isn't falling.  And the secondary is now loaded with quality components, some of whom were even starters.  Iron sharpens iron.  Future looks bright.

And to your point, now they need to do it on the field.  I'm confident they will -- because we have returning guys like Simmons, Peterson, Wilson, Delanie, and Oliver who are ready to ascend into bigger roles, and newcomers like Gould, Bellamy, Martin, and Farmer who are poised to steal their jobs.

Great "problem" to have.
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