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[QUOTE="syracuse95, post: 3101506, member: 860"]
No, we don't and never have.  And I get that we are a developmental school in a lot of areas, but especially the OLine.  I guess I don't understand why we struggle in this area as compared to BC, though.  They don't have a geographic advantage...they recruit the same areas we do.  They're a northeastern team.  They have similar academic requirements.  I admittedly know very little about their facilities, and that may have been an issue 10 years ago, but I find it hard to believe they are very much better than us today in that regard.  They do put guys in the NFL and I realize that kind of feeds off itself from a recruiting standpoint.  I thought maybe when Pugh went in the first round we'd see an uptick in OLine recruiting, but it just hasn't been there.

Our DLine approach is very similar...we're a developmental school.  But for whatever reason, we seem to have much more success developing players on that side of the ball.  That's been true under both defensive and offensive minded coaches to date.

I am hopeful for improvement over the coming years, and I know OLinemen take time to develop.  It's the most difficult position to contribute as an underclassman.  It's just frustrating because it's been an issue for so long, masked periodically by dual threat QBs.
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