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A very good, and troubling, questionok, i think a lot of us feel the weak link on the team was the ol. how do all 3 of our returnees make an all big east team and the 2 that graduated get drafted or signed as a FA. why weren't they much better last year?
A very good, and troubling, question
ok, i think a lot of us feel the weak link on the team was the ol. how do all 3 of our returnees make an all big east team and the 2 that graduated get drafted or signed as a FA. why weren't they much better last year?
ok, i think a lot of us feel the weak link on the team was the ol. how do all 3 of our returnees make an all big east team and the 2 that graduated get drafted or signed as a FA. why weren't they much better last year?
Im not sure if this is a legit question or a dig at Adkins and Marrone. I am going to answer this question in two parts. First, about 50 percent of all college contributors get a fa tryout after school. Tiller was a late sixth rounder.
Secondly, as to Steele's preseason honors, it's like the special olympics where everyone gets a medal. If there are four teams, and five lineman per team, then there are 20 slots for a preseason honor. Since there are only what, 8 teams in the BE, then essentially half win an award. Actually, it's probably much more than that considering of a good twenty to thirty percent of last year's starting 40 OL in the big east were lost to graduation. Basically if you played a snap at any OL position, you're getting on Steele's list.
They can only block for so long. Eventually a receiver has to get open...or a QB needs to get that open receiver the ball.
I've said it before that Nassib's completion percentage would have gone up 10 percentage points if he just took a bit of juice off the ball. Not every pass needs to be shot out of a cannon. Give the receivers a chance to catch the damn ball.