2012 Redshirts
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2011: PJ Jones; Preston Smith; Dee Arrington
2010: Harrison-Gay; Hughes; Michael Carr
but it is a small sample size.
Everyone will be given the opportunity to play and if they earn that speak volumes for our recruiting last year when you consider our depth. The thing is they could make the 2 depth and play special teams, but why waste a year when you have quality players ready to play sp teams and 2 deep
So my best guess is
Quay Evans
Will Redmond
Devon Bell
Richie Brown
maybe Nick James
2010: Harrison-Gay; Hughes; Michael Carr
but it is a small sample size.
Everyone will be given the opportunity to play and if they earn that speak volumes for our recruiting last year when you consider our depth. The thing is they could make the 2 depth and play special teams, but why waste a year when you have quality players ready to play sp teams and 2 deep
So my best guess is
Quay Evans
Will Redmond
Devon Bell
Richie Brown
maybe Nick James
obviously Quay Evans will play after enrolling early and going through the spring. Out of the summer enrollees, I think Richie Brown stands the best chance to play, and beyond him, it gets kind of murky. Will Redmond could possibly give us some help at one of the safety spots, and Nick James has the size, but I don't think he'll be mentally or physically ready to help us this year.
He is not going to play ahead of McKinney, Bohanna, Lawrence, or Wells. With zero chance of him making the two-deep- he would be better off RS'ing than playing special teams and getting 3 garbage reps against Jackson State, South Alabama, and Middle Tennessee
My prediction:
Quay Evans plays because he has been here in the spring and he is good enough to break the two deep.
Devon Bellplays
Will Redmond plays because we will need him to have some experience to be ready to play next year.
Everyone else red-shirts.
Quay Evans plays because he has been here in the spring and he is good enough to break the two deep.
Devon Bellplays
Will Redmond plays because we will need him to have some experience to be ready to play next year.
Everyone else red-shirts.
They play freshman knowing they might only be around for a few years (grades, attitude, etc). Might as well use them while you got'em.<div>
</div><div>I'd venture a guess that most players don't want to be redshirted, but they are smart enough to view it as a necessary evil.</div>
</div><div>I'd venture a guess that most players don't want to be redshirted, but they are smart enough to view it as a necessary evil.</div>
Only thing I could figure out is Mullen promised Dee he would not redshirt when he was recruiting him.
But my opinion on safeties - we should always be able to recruit some decent ones in Mississippi. The highschools are stocked withguys who could potentially fit this role... about 6ft tall, 190-200 lbs, and very athletic. We may not always have NFL talent back there, but it should never be a weakness.
But my opinion on safeties - we should always be able to recruit some decent ones in Mississippi. The highschools are stocked withguys who could potentially fit this role... about 6ft tall, 190-200 lbs, and very athletic. We may not always have NFL talent back there, but it should never be a weakness.
Arrington may start this year and will absolutely be relied upon to step up, especially with Whitley's status up in the air. I don't think our coaching staff wanted to throw him into that without ever having played college football. I think last year will be huge for him transitioning into a big role this year.<div>
</div><div>As someone said we may play Redmond simply because we'll need him to play a lot next year...same principle for Arrington this year.</div>
</div><div>As someone said we may play Redmond simply because we'll need him to play a lot next year...same principle for Arrington this year.</div>
Is to get enough bodies and structure in place to where we can actually redshirt and develop players.
I don't really follow recruiting, and could care less about the number of "stars" a recruit has -- it's the on-field production that's important. It really seems like we are getting folks in, doing a solid job on Strength+Conditioning, and then coaching them up. I don't remember us having this luxury before, or doing a good job really improving folks over time.
Side Note: I argue the recruiting thing with the UTexas homers here all the time. They talk recruiting all year round, yet their team full of 4-5 stars still has had 2 mediocre years in a row.
I don't really follow recruiting, and could care less about the number of "stars" a recruit has -- it's the on-field production that's important. It really seems like we are getting folks in, doing a solid job on Strength+Conditioning, and then coaching them up. I don't remember us having this luxury before, or doing a good job really improving folks over time.
Side Note: I argue the recruiting thing with the UTexas homers here all the time. They talk recruiting all year round, yet their team full of 4-5 stars still has had 2 mediocre years in a row.
will be the reason Richie Brown doesn't redshirt if he doesn't. He stated several times during his recruitment that he really preferred not to redshirt.
I thought this is why we had sunday night football. To get guys that didn't play or didn't get in the game a chance to get some reps at a practice setting but still going full-go.
Make no mistake this staff has said they would rather redshirt a kid than have him out there for garbage time or sp teams his true freshman year (look back to last year, when we had 8-10 playing lots of minutes as rs fr). Sometimes when kids don't redshirt and play sp teams and garbage time, it is because they did not want to. The way I was told Mullen recruited was he allowed the recruit to pick their position the 1st year and if they absolutely didn't want to redshirt, then he would convince them where their playing time would be in other years...
Make no mistake this staff has said they would rather redshirt a kid than have him out there for garbage time or sp teams his true freshman year (look back to last year, when we had 8-10 playing lots of minutes as rs fr). Sometimes when kids don't redshirt and play sp teams and garbage time, it is because they did not want to. The way I was told Mullen recruited was he allowed the recruit to pick their position the 1st year and if they absolutely didn't want to redshirt, then he would convince them where their playing time would be in other years...