Building a Program verses plugging holes

Apr 25, 2015
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A friend of mine made a good point when discussing the current football program. He's opinion was that while Stoops has been adding quality recruits they have been forced to speed up the maturation process with most players. Case in point Matt Elam. Elam should have redshirted along with most of our recruits.

Stoops has made the decision to move most freshman forward to fill holes in the current roster instead of red shirting. Some of these players are physically ready but not good enough to compete. Obviously several players from each class have red shirted but
Not all have lived up to our expectations.

Thus we have been plugging the holes and not really building this roster. We have quality players on both sides of the ball but not enough. Slippery slope I guess.
 

Anjiejo

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Have you considered that they might have signed with us for that very reason?? Early playing time!!!
 

hunterpapa

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DIDN'T BROOKS LIKE TO REDSHIRT PLAYERS, THE SOPH YEAR. WAS LISTING TO SPORTSHOW ON XM, AND BUTCH DAVIS SAID WHEN HE WENT TO THE U THEY WANTED TO RUN HIM OFF, AFTER 2 SEASONS, BUT WHEN HIS FRS. AND SOPH. BECAME JRS AND SER. THEY LOVED HIM THERE.
 

Mr Schwump

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And not just Elam. Allen, Jones and Daniel should've RSed this year but were forced to play. Doubt if next year will be much better. Looking at the '16 DL it's almost a given that Smith, Looney and Cross will have to play well before they should.
 

seccats04

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I wish Stoops had just bitten the bullet that first year and RS the whole class. Then explain to the fan base that we are building and will take some lumps this year because of this but you better get us now because we are coming for you.
 
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This won't change until the fourth year. Stoops has a problem and its lack of quality depth.
We didn't have much in the way of depth when Joker left and that's carried itself forward.

Let me be clear that I'm not happy with our current state, this is just another reason as to why we are not succeeding on the field.

Peace