11 teams represented on the SEC All Fresh Team...
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Edit to add - I see it's Ole Miss. Usually when you suck, it's due to playing a lot of younger players and the all-Freshman team has a lot of your players. I remember Croom having a lot of freshman on the teams. They just wouldn't get better.
So, we played with 22 total juniors and seniors combined on the roster most of the year.
The real problem was our defense was awful, and we didn't have good team leadership, but we were definitely a young team too.
I believe last year we had 22 scholarship seniors on the roster. This year, that was the combined total of juniors AND seniors.
We're going to be fairly young again next year, or at least our senior class is going to be really weak. We need the current sophomore class to grow up next year, and we need to not experience much attrition from the freshman class.
Jeff Scott, Charles Sawyer, Jared Duke, Patrick Junen, Mike Marry, Ja-Mes Logan, Cameron Whigham, Korvic Neat, Tony Grimes, and Brishen Matthews got a decent number of snaps this year. We didn't play a ton of freshmen other than that though, other than spot duty with guys like Thompson, Delvin Jones, etc. We had a lot of contribution from the sophomore class, and probably 85% of the seniors/juniors played or started.
I don't think any of those freshmen I listed started every game, though many of them did start at one time or another.
The real problem was our defense was awful, and we didn't have good team leadership, but we were definitely a young team too.
I believe last year we had 22 scholarship seniors on the roster. This year, that was the combined total of juniors AND seniors.
We're going to be fairly young again next year, or at least our senior class is going to be really weak. We need the current sophomore class to grow up next year, and we need to not experience much attrition from the freshman class.
Jeff Scott, Charles Sawyer, Jared Duke, Patrick Junen, Mike Marry, Ja-Mes Logan, Cameron Whigham, Korvic Neat, Tony Grimes, and Brishen Matthews got a decent number of snaps this year. We didn't play a ton of freshmen other than that though, other than spot duty with guys like Thompson, Delvin Jones, etc. We had a lot of contribution from the sophomore class, and probably 85% of the seniors/juniors played or started.
I don't think any of those freshmen I listed started every game, though many of them did start at one time or another.
Cause Chad Bumphis did as a true freshmens and Neat was a redshirt this year so he definately should have. I mean, they're practically the same player according to the UM coaches and Yancey, right? They DID have Neat higher on their want list than Bumphis, right?
All we heard from Ole Miss fans were that neither of them was good enough for Ole Miss. Both would have started for you this year.
I still remember Yancy bitching about Jackson being rated higher than McCray and how McCray was really the top OL in the state. And Whitley "wasn't impressive" at your camp.
I still remember Yancy bitching about Jackson being rated higher than McCray and how McCray was really the top OL in the state. And Whitley "wasn't impressive" at your camp.
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what you took 3 paragraphs to tell us is that your upperclassmen sucked and had no leadership skills and your younger players weren't good enough to beat them out or make FR All-SEC and therefore your team sucked and you see it being that way again next year.
Got it..thanks.
Got it..thanks.
Our recruiting, in theory, should be building toward good depth and experience in 2012. The problem is going to be how much attrition affects us and whether any of the young guys are going to step up and lead. Nutt's attrition rate originally looked pretty good, especially after seeing 2 of Orgeron's 3 signing classes have a 50% or higher attrition rate. Lately, it's been highly questionable, and that's going to be the destruction of him as the Ole Miss coach unless he gets the team back on track.
As far as I'm concerned, he's done after next year unless he makes a strong turnaround in 2011.
As far as I'm concerned, he's done after next year unless he makes a strong turnaround in 2011.
Four years ago, Ole Miss folks hit the ceiling when Derek Sherrod was named Gatorade player of the year over Chris Strong. We were told how much better Strong was. Strong himselfstated he would win 4 Butkus Awards. Sherrod has made good grades, stayed out of trouble, started for 3-1/2 years, and will bea first round draft pick. Do you think Strong gets picked this year?