Ryan Kisselstein and Austin Chandler

[bigmike]

Was somewhat surprised that these fellas travelled to Liberty while scholarship guys like Qadir White and Will Froumy did not. Cause for alarm?

 

[upperdeck]

you can only take a small number.. if we have enough at one spot we may limit some positions.. could also be injury issues.

 

[PAcuse]

Sounds like Dino takes kids that earn the spot or maybe some minor injures?
I think White needs to put it together soonish tho...

 

[DeGrozz]

I never really could figure out what the story with White is. He obviously has the size, as a recruit we've heard he's a great athlete, and those close to the team constantly talk about him being strong as an ox.

Hard to figure out how a kid like that isn't pushing for time. The only real story out there is that he'd need 2 years to get his body ready for this level of football, but I don't really get what that means with all the other positive factors about him.

 

[RF2044]

I never really could figure out what the story with White is. He obviously has the size, as a recruit we've heard he's a great athlete, and those close to the team constantly talk about him being strong as an ox.

Hard to figure out how a kid like that isn't pushing for time. The only real story out there is that he'd need 2 years to get his body ready for this level of football, but I don't really get what that means with all the other positive factors about him.

It actually is really straightforward -- he was a 4-star recruit because he was massive, it was more of a projection pick than indicative of him being a refined product. He needed to get into shape and greatly improve his technique [versus just being able to blow people of the LOS because of his mammoth size at the HS level].

By all accounts, he's worked hard and benefitted from redshirting. He's lost a substantial amount of weight, and is working on the play book / learning his assignments. He also changed positions. So W.I.P., but he's also a redshirt frosh, one game into his first year of playing.

 

[PhatOrange]

White is a redshirt freshman.