I'm impressed with how un-informed you are regarding our offensive line. I, likewise, am ignorant of your offensive line. So go *** yourself and may the best offensive line win.
edit: In my opinion, the offensive line is THE most crucial squad on the college football field.
I will agree with this.
While our OL is definitely our biggest concern, Luke (our OL coach if you're as un-informed about our staff as I am yours) feels he has more to work with this year than he had the last two seasons.
I think he's right. I think we're more talented. The problem is that a lot of those players in our rotation will be playing their first extensive college action 2 weeks from now. Experience is a big issue for us up front, but the overall number of SEC-ready players should be better this year than the past two.
They're starting to settle on a rotation for the OL, but due to the number of new faces in our rotation this year, they've been doing more shuffling than usual this fall to make sure they know where everyone can play.
Rawlings shouldn't play this fall. He's likely to be the center to take over for Still/Conyers in a couple years, but if he's good enough, they may find him some time in a reserve role somewhere else next year. I'll bet they find playing time for Taylor, most likely at one of the guard spots.
The good news is, by next year, we should have a pretty solid and deep OL. We return pretty much everyone. The only two seniors on the roster aren't in the rotation.
In fact, you could say that about a lot of positions for us looking toward 2015. We'll return a lot going into 2015 and probably have a better team overall. The only challenge, and it's a big one, is replacing a 3 year starting QB, but every other position on the team should be just as good or better in 2015 compared to where they'll be in 2014. We lose guys like Prewitt, Bryant, Golson, and Shackelford too after this season, but we have depth and talent at those positions that will have experience.
