Offensive Line - A Work in Progress

Hannon also getting reps at Center.

Gates and Price working at Tackle. Interesting on both those two. Supposedly Cav gave them there choice as to where to start out. Price played both G and T last year. Gates was rumored to be working inside last year but we definitely have long-term need at Tackle. he is said to be able to play all five spots.

 
Supposedly the first group was Lewis-Hannon-Thurston-Utter-Price with Reeves, Knevel and Farmer working in as well. Reeves is slowed by injuries.

 
I suspected a position change when I heard the coaches let the linemen write their desired position on the board. There had to be a few 2nd string tackles and guards thinking that playing center was the way to the first string.

 
yep, the old staff didn't care how fat these kids got, pitiful, the kid should have known better too........where the hell were the developmental coaches?????? what a f'ing joke was Pelini.

 
Did you even read the tweet Hunter? He has lost 50 lbs since 2013. Not since Pelini left. Get a grip

 
BRV920 said:
Did you even read the tweet Hunter? He has lost 50 lbs since 2013. Not since Pelini left. Get a grip
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i didn't say he lost the weight since Pelini left.........i said Pelini was here when the kid was too fat to take 5 steps......

 
He was a 2013 recruit which means he basically came in that weight and dropped 50 lbs since he got here.

Oh that horrible past staff.

Can we please get over this myth that the past staff let our o line be too fat? Linemen are fat. They always have been and always will be.

 
This example with Zach Hannon is not a good example of the weight and mobility issues with some of our linemen in the past few years, but hold your horses on just dismissing the notion altogether. Just because Hannon came in overweight doesn't mean there aren't examples of guys who did gain too much weight and completely regress in mobility. It's not a myth. Sterup and Rodriguez are two guys to me that looked overweight and immobile in recent memory. Yes, linemen are big guys, sometimes even fat, but everybody- whether it be linemen or otherwise- has a playing weight. A weight limit where their athleticism is not hindered by their mass. I could go through quite a long list of guys who have looked hindered by their size in the last seven years under Pelini. The training staff had begun to focus too much on the size aspect to "fit the Big Ten", and guys began losing speed and mobility. Now, you want to talk about a myth, there's a myth for you. Speed still rules this game. Always has. Now if you can get a combination of size and speed, great, but speed comes first.

 
Hunter94 said:
BRV920 said:
Did you even read the tweet Hunter? He has lost 50 lbs since 2013. Not since Pelini left. Get a grip
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i didn't say he lost the weight since Pelini left.........i said Pelini was here when the kid was too fat to take 5 steps......
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Yeah, totes should have committed an NCAA violation by coaching this kid before he actually got here....

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So, how did we end up with better offenses in the B1G, playing better defenses, than we had in the Big 12 that didn't play defenses? Was it the crappy recruiting, lack of player development, piss poor S&C, horrible playcalling, or bad coaching? I'm amazed our team could even get off the bus...

Since everything under Bo sucked, and we've improved in every area with the new guys, I expect with all the improvements of the new staff that we'll put up 40+ PPG and 10+ wins this year.

Ah, the joys of spring ball under a new regime...

 
True2tRA said:
This example with Zach Hannon is not a good example of the weight and mobility issues with some of our linemen in the past few years, but hold your horses on just dismissing the notion altogether. Just because Hannon came in overweight doesn't mean there aren't examples of guys who did gain too much weight and completely regress in mobility. It's not a myth. Sterup and Rodriguez are two guys to me that looked overweight and immobile in recent memory. Yes, linemen are big guys, sometimes even fat, but everybody- whether it be linemen or otherwise- has a playing weight. A weight limit where their athleticism is not hindered by their mass. I could go through quite a long list of guys who have looked hindered by their size in the last seven years under Pelini. The training staff had begun to focus too much on the size aspect to "fit the Big Ten", and guys began losing speed and mobility. Now, you want to talk about a myth, there's a myth for you. Speed still rules this game. Always has. Now if you can get a combination of size and speed, great, but speed comes first.
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agree, TCU is an example of this.....their defensive linemen ( a year or 2 ago) were on average 20 lbs. smaller than most of the O lines they were facing.....they were so much quicker and agile they still matched up well and contained well.

 
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