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[QUOTE="Forza Azzurri, post: 3148705, member: 1452"]
Yup.  Pretty much.  Every other unit seems to be ok to me.  If we even had last year's line, we probably go anywhere from 7-5 to 9-3.

I don't know.  Wish I did.  Clearly nobody saw this coming.

Yup.

Alrighty, then.  Good idea.  How about we not let them hydrate either until they learn how to block and not false start?  Memo to you:  Bear Bryant just called from 1954 and wants you to stop poaching his training methods...

Although Dino see how the backups perform in practice and we don't, I would say go ahead and do this, but not until we are no longer bowl eligible.

Now there's a thought.  Dino et al probably haven't thought of that.  Maybe email Dino and let him know.  You should also probably let him know that the star system is not like golf.  1 star is not better than 5 star.  He may not know that.

Although most of what I said above is tongue-in-cheek, it is certainly reasonable to hold Dino and the staff accountable for the line's miserable performance.  Whether they missed in recruiting, underestimated how good this group would be, are not training them up etc., at the end of the day, the Oline's failure does fall on the coaching staff, regardless of the reason.

I think the silver lining here is that the other units of the team are certainly at a level where we can expect to be a bowl-eligible team, so if you can fix the Oline for next season, then we can get back to that level...
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