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[QUOTE="tep624, post: 3912515, member: 430"]
Marrone had his own challenges mostly with recruiting skill position talent - in 2012, 4 seasons after GRob, his best QB (Nassib) and 2 best WR's (Lemon, Sales) were all GRob era recruits.  Conversely, 3 years removed from Marrone (2015) - the best QB (Dungey), RB (Fredericks) and WR (Ishmael) - all Shafer era recruits.

But he definitely had a strategy for the OL and you can do a lot with a strong defense and a solid OL.  It's why Shafer had a winning season in 2013 with what Marrone had left over.

I sometimes wonder how early Marrone knew in 2012 that he was going to leave, because the 2013 class just looks like it was de-emphasized down the stretch during the bowl season.  The high point was Gus Edwards commit that July (subsequently decommitted after the coaching change), but there were some other solid recruits I thought we were sure to land (Shawn Curtis the OL from FL that went to Iowa St.) that we whiffed on in Oct/Nov leading to 5 JUCO commits in Dec right before Marrone left.
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