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[QUOTE="tep624, post: 1434028, member: 430"]
Yep.  Can't compare these performances in a vacuum.  It would have been hard for any OL coach to field a competent unit out of what we had last year, with the number games starters missed due to injury, the number of games starters had to play injured due to depth problems, the lack of competent or ready depth on the 2 deep, and a couple of really damaging career ending injuries to Curtis and Knapp in the years prior.

The 2013 class was a horrendous OL recruiting job by Marrone's staff.  They landed all of John Miller and John Burton before they bolted.  You couple that with losing a surefire starter in Curtis and, at a minimum, a really solid depth guy in Knapp, and it makes 2013 even worse.  The new staff managed Moore, who hasn't played a minute on the OL and is probably redshirting this year, Lasker, who was promising as a recruit but hasn't developed into a full-time starter to date, and Hayes, who had to redshirt in 2014 and played spotty as a RF last year, with 1.5 months to recruit that class.  To date, we've gotten 1 year of full-time starter minutes out of that 2013 class (Miller in the 2014 season).  Hayes does look promising and he may end up starting for a few years, but that does little to help the 2014 and 2015 starting group.

Outside of going high-end JUCO in the 2014 recruiting class, which there is a very limited number of prospects available and a ton of competition for those prospects, it is extremely hard to make up that kind of gap on O-Line in one year.
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