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[QUOTE="GoSU96, post: 1903230, member: 114"]
I'm not over estimating anything.

Here is what I was responding to in total.

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The big question is who's going to want to play OL here? Linemen don't like running; most are allergic to it. I know Dino favors more svelte linemen but still, we might struggle to get solid recruits on the OL for a while.

If by "a while," you mean the past 30 years, then I completely agree.

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So we've failed to get solid OL in this program for the last 30 years.   30 years, as in since 1986 we've failed to bring in solid OL recruits.

Really?

Where did I say we had lines full of all american's from tackle to tackle?   That's what getting solid OL recruits equates to?

I pointed out two guys who are starting now in the NFL that certainty don't fit with failing to get solid OL recruits in the last 30 years.     There are first and second year players playing this year that are probably going to be "solid" with quality coaching.    Does that mean they are headed to the NFL, probably not, but it doesn't mean they won't turn out to be good college players.

Chibane, Trudo, Mackey, and Hickey are the very definition of solid.

In 2003/2004 the OL unit had Terry, Tarrullo, Franklin, Ojinnaka, Greene, Romeo, Sampson on it.   Were they great, no, but solid, certainty think so.

It's not like they have trotted out lines like Lepak, Baumbach, Allport, Phillips, and McKenzie year after year.   If the three deep was full of guys like that year after year then you'd be right.
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