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Message: [QUOTE="sufandu, post: 691796, member: 874"] Just to be clear, I didn't want to insult Hemsley. He ended up being a pretty solid player if I remember right. It just took him a while to grow into his position. That year he was a freshman, I think all of our starting linebackers were small freshman. We just hadn't been able to recruit and develop guys that were ready to replace Glen Young, Garland Hawkins, and JoJo Wooden, and we were trying the whole move safeties to linebacker thing to get faster. Had Conley gotten hurt again in '93? I don't know that Mason was better than Graves. Graves had that horrible defense and the running game wasn't anywhere near as good as his junior year. He had lost Ismail and Gedney too. He still set the single season passing yardage record that stood until last year. Our defense starting maturing again just in time for that McNabb kid to take the job. [/QUOTE]