Sixth...now seventh...now eighth olineman enters portal
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Poor Sheila; still a groupie.
Didn’t you get a new dollhouse for Xmas? Something a little more your speed? Thought so; run along and play now.
Guess I touched a nerve there, puppy. Tells me I hit close to the mark. Cry harder for me.
Lmao
I am more interested in who the hell is going to block next year. I pray this is Briles seeing the tape and looking young men in the whites of the eyes and saying we do not have a spot for you next year. WE need six bulls. Miami's right guard is an absolute beast. He is down field on every play looking for someone to spear. Pile driver we haven't had since Latimore was running the ball.
Yes, I too hope it's cleaning house. The con Ernest is noted above just plain numbers.
We need to portal in a lot of players to not only improve the line, but also now to build depth too.
Everything is conditional. If the offensive line turns out to be an unsuccessful project, both the premise and the projection will be validated. If not, it wasn't my premise to begin with.
Well, the new coaches have seen the film, and they feel they are better off bringing their own OL.
Portal is full of expected OL. Need to get that giant, highly rated guy from SC. There are some NC boys we might be able to nab.
Speaking for myself, I am more optimistic about the 2026 as we finally have a proper offensive line coach/staff, I believe we are going to be much improved. I don't have any concerns with all of these ol players leaving, we need to start fresh, onwards and upwards, go gamecocks!
Good idea, as long as we bring in a full OL rotation with almost no misses across the board.
That should be easy.
Yeah, changing the head coach has really worked out for us in the past, every 4 or 5 years we’ve done that and look at where we’re at, time to try something new and keep our coach longer than that, as far as the o line goes, good riddance, Teasley could recruit but obviously can’t coach, start fresh and hopefully get a lot better, can’t imagine who we could get as head coach that would make a difference, in today’s college football world if we got a new coach he would more than likely move on for more money if he turned us around, Beamer wants to be here for the long haul it seems so let’s give him more time to hopefully get us straightened out. Our past changing coaches hasn’t worked out really well.
Changing a coach every 5 years is actually longer than the average tenure for college coaches. Its not the revolving door some think it is.
As for the OL. I can understand the good riddance attitude, but there's an issue if numbers. We are losing a lot. We need to not only replace them, but replace them with better players, across first and second string and don't all in one offseason.
I would like to have seen what the new coaching could do with some of these guys before having to rebuild feom scratch.
No I was interested to see him as a Junior, started as a Fresh and Soph and then leaves, if we had gotten a upgrade at LT from the portal he could of shifted to RT
I think his point is that it’s apparently not a recipe for success either.
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Actually, I don't care one way or the other. But if the line blows next year, he's gone.
The usual response to that is to ask if keeping an underachieving coach is a recipe for success either.
A minor second point is to highlight to people that 5 year tenures are above average. And they're not the panicky flailing that some think it is.
By looking at all those coaches who struggled, then magically turned it around in year 6 or 7?
absolutely, after watching this putrid ol for the last 3 seasons I am ready to see what our new ol staff can do. Thankfully we finally have a proper offensive staff to compliment our defense, excited to see what 2026 brings for us, go gamecocks!
with regards to the large number of OL players leaving, I for one am glad to see this transition. I wish these young guys well wherever they land, but I trust our new offensive staff to make these decisions moving forward, go gamecocks.
This transition can work out, but it needs a large influx of OL. Talented OL, and many of them. We obviously haven't seen that yet, so thats what I'm anxious to see.
Teasley supposedly did a really good job recruiting. He just could not coach the linemen worth a lick. It would have been interesting to see what those offensive linemen would have done with Clements coaching. But, that won't happen now. So, we have to depend on the Portal. Will the linemen we will get be players not good enough to get playing time on their prior team? Will they be malcontents and trouble makers? Whatever it is brings to mind what Forrest said: "Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get".
Problem is Xavier from Auburn has an NIL value of 1M. WE don't have room under the salary cap. Oops forgot there is no cap.
Good news is I heard from a friend whose sister told him that she knew a guy whose cousin was a walk on Olineman at Troy who might be planning a visit to Aiken, SC, which is close to Columbia. When are the Bigs gonna join?? We need at least 6. Surely, we have put out the APB for that need.
Good news is I heard from a friend whose sister told him that she knew a guy whose cousin was a walk on Olineman at Troy who might be planning a visit to Aiken, SC, which is close to Columbia. When are the Bigs gonna join?? We need at least 6. Surely, we have put out the APB for that need.
It's hilarious that any of our OLinemen had the audacity to ask for *any* money!
It's common knowledge that it takes the OL unit longer to gel than other units on the team, a realistic expectation is about 1 1/2 -2 year time frame.
With the prospect of replacing what looks to be starters and backups, it would be a bit unrealistic to expect massive improvement as early as this fall, regardless of the pedigree of the new staff.
Agree. That's why the number of departures is a bit concerning. I'm staying positive about it but I'm not going to assume all is great either "because they all suck and need to get lost". Hopefully a new staff, better coaching and better players will be the end product.
Teams "plug'n'play" OL all the time due to injuries/other. IMO, the "gel" factor is overrated.
It would seem our coaches are not that concerned.
Hell, he's played WR for THREE years. I sure hope he has improved some.
Don't forget, he played TE in HS too. He wasn't starting totally from scratch. If he had stuck with playing DE he would probably be going to the draft this year as a first rounder.
Of course they do, and the rotational players are participating in drills along with the 1st string in every single practices/meetings. This is to keep up the playing level and avoid drop offs.
The "gel" factor as stated by very prominent coaches (through the years) is not considered overrated, but essential.
If our offense/OL coaches are not that concerned, then one has to question their commitment and or professionalism
He does….he’s had 3 years worth of “talent”….so let him go and wish him well.
Anyone who thinks OL are "plug and play" doesn't know much at all about football. If that were true, there would be little to no drop off when a starter went down and the backup who practices with the 1s every day came in. OL is very much a "team" unit. Every player on the OL needs to know and trust every other player and know instinctively how to work together. There is no other position group on a team that requires as much cohesion as the OL.
Bringing in 4 or 5 new OL that have never played together or in an OC's system and expecting them to immediately be effective is pure fantasy.