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Message: [QUOTE="Consigliere, post: 2169383, member: 559"] Thinking back to what Dino mentioned at the signing day event - Coaches are basically paranoid and he stands at the front of that line. Hence an open and televised scrimmage is going to be more vanilla than Nilla. I was privileged to attend a reception after the game with ultimate insiders from the administration and they mentioned Dino understands the need for open events like yesterday but really hates them. He talks constantly about the "Wakeyleaks" incident and the damage breaches can cause. Also heard that there was a lot of excitement with the class of '18 recruits on campus yesterday. No names mentioned but seemed like there were some very positive developments with at least a couple of kids who were on campus over the weekend. I asked if there might be a certain tight end from Florida who fit that scenario and got only smiles in response. There were some major differences in what we saw at the closed scrimmage a week ago and yesterday both positive and negative. The Devin Butlers were both featured more and performed at a much higher level yesterday. Conversely Custis looked like an all-ACC receiver last week but was hardly involved yesterday when the offense was limited to quick hit passing with just a couple of shots down field. Pace of the offense overall was appreciably slower yesterday as well though still faster than last fall. Spent a lot of time watching line play in both scrimmages. I'm by no means an expert but the OL, based on size, quickness and one-on-one matchups seems like it should be more effective. I firmly believe things will click for this group as a unit sometime in August and the level of play will take off. Also I'd be surprised if there isn;t a shake up in the first five from what we saw yesterday. There is depth with this unit and guys like M. Clark, Heckel and Davis are clearly pushing the starters. Not sure what killed the Moe to the slot move but got to assume it was numbers and performance by Strickland and Perkins. Might as well just go five wide at this point. Pierre may help I suppose but the way we run the ball at this point ranks right up there with punting on third down. Waste of a play. [/QUOTE]

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