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[QUOTE="timkay99, post: 782544, member: 635"]
Good post, but I disagree about only 2 players that are ACC quality in the secondary.  As much as I hate Anderson and Wilkes, they were starters for a team many think was the best team in the Big East (at least on this board).  So, you have Anderson, Reddish, Morgan, Eskridge, Wilkes and that doesn't even get into players like Whigham.  Those guys are all ACC quality players, but are not being used in an ACC quality way.

I also don't think our DL is average for the ACC.  I think our D-tackles are avg for the ACC and our D-Ends are the worst in the conference.  The move to a 3-4 kind of exasperated that problem for me.

Recruiting wise, I don't see a step up.  The same positions we know we need to improve our skill level (OL - mostly OT and DL) have seen struggles bringing kids in again.  We need defensive ends so badly.  I am curious to see what happens as the class finalizes.

For me, I think Moore may have to go.  We talk about how great of a WR coach he is, but in reality, he improved a guy in Lemon who contributed as a true frosh and a guy in Sales who they couldn't even get on the field b/c of how he practiced.  I personally think he has been given a lot of guys with raw tools, but hasn't been able to make them serviceable WR's (I disagree Broyld is an ACC caliber WR at this stage as well, hands are too inconsistent).

Outside of Moore (and that is more to get a premium recruiter in), I don't know who else goes.  Bullough is the big name, but who do you get?  You want experience or you want another guy like McDonald?  I think as you look back at the hiring decisions, you saw Shafer go the opposite way that I would have preferred.  He ended up hiring a DC with experience even though that is his side of the ball and then hired an OC with no previous play calling experience.

Will be interesting to see how we play after a bye week.
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