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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 3583166, member: 27"] UB starters, according to ourlads, which was updated 11/2/20: Nunn WR Tampa, FL SR Johnson WR Windor, ON SR Ruiz WR Fredonia, NY SR Awosika LT Plymouth, MN SR Gall LG Cincinnati, OH JR Novitsky C Victor, NY SO Klenk RG Pittsford, NY SR Fuzak RT Williamsville, NY SR Lefebvre Victor, NY TE SR Patterson, Glendale, MD RB JR Riggins DE Webster, NY SR (verbaled to SU, Babers passed) Wilson DT Jersey City, NJ JR McGee DT Sumter, SC JR Koonce DE Peekskill, NY SR Terry LB Pittsburgh, PA JR Patterson LB Glendale, MD JR Wright KB, Richmond, VA SR Washington CB Charlotte, NC JR Gross SS Rochester, NY SO Hill FS Passiac, NJ SR Abbas Irvington, NJ CB SR I have them with 8 starters from NY, though RB Patterson is also listed as a starting LB, which surely is not true. Of those 8 starters, 4 are on the OL (counting the TE) and 2 are on the DL. So more than half of their starting linemen are from New York. Their staff appears to be better at identifying talent than the Syracuse staff. At least identifying raw talent that can eventually be developed. But the thing that strikes me the most looking at the UB starters is the experience level. No freshman starting. At any of the 22 starting positions. One sophomore starting on offense and defense. Everyone else a junior or a senior. When we were a team that regularly had winning seasons and bowl games, we were like this. You can't win playing a lot of sophomores, red-shirt frosh and true frosh. This has to end. Dino and his staff have to get the kids that come here to buy in and stay for 4 or 5 years consistently. Part of our problem this year is bad luck with injuries but part is all the turnover we have year after year. I look forward to the day when we have 20 of our 22 starters on offense and defense juniors or seniors. I guarantee you, if we can get to that point, we will have a hell of a lot better than we are now. [/QUOTE]

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