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Message: [QUOTE="Newhouse_83, post: 3053610, member: 7139"] Plenty of thought-provoking points in this thread. Having multiple options is a good "problem" to have, and as someone pointed out, how the groups perform as a unit will be key. Seemingly every August, Dick MacPherson would be asked about his unsettled O-line. His answer was often "we'll get the best guys on the field." Before long, the backup center or third guard who was blocked by one of the studs would slide to a guard spot and the line would be better. My sense is that tghat's the approach Desko should take. The midfield is deeper than the other units, with four (and possibly five, thought, I think Lipka is a tick behind the other guys) potential starters, while the logical third attack candidates -- especially Seebold -- bring questions. The six I'd roll out the first practice when everyone's healthy would be Scanlan, Curry, Dordevic, Trimboli, Rehfuss, Buttermore. If it turns out the attack functions better with Cook than a converted mid, well, the midfield just got deeper. But I also like the possibility of Cook as a change-of-pace fourth attack, especially if we run up against a team with a big-and-slow element to it. Another great point is that we should wait to see what we have in year 2 of Cook. In any sport, at almost any level, that's the year that players tend to make a leap; it was a good point that Rice was a three-point guy after one year ... then scored 219 the next three. (And if you believe SU's 2019 media guide, Donahue did exactly the same thing, with the same point totals in each year. But I digress.) I wonder, too, if there's someone who's not a starter who might make sense as a man-up specialist -- basically, taking someone who's not going to see a ton of PT, but has a skill that can be leveraged -- maybe in the way Desko used DeJoe. I haven't seen enough of him to commit to anything, but Quinn seemed to be a guy who is both looking to shoot, and capable of scoring in different ways (OTOH, he's not particularly big). People's descriptions of Aburn also make him sound like someone who might fit the bill). [/QUOTE]

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