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Would be nice but he will be snatched up for an OC position I imagine pretty soon.

Interested in potential grad transfers they may have.

Heads will roll if we go 3-9.

Yeah Minny's defense will regress. Their offense will still be damn good though which is what killed us last year. We need to play sideline to sideline against them, but them losing Johnson is big. For Iowa, Wirfs and Epenesa would be crazy to return considering where they are projected, but crazier things have happened. Replacing Stanley will be tough for them, kid is tough and the definition of an Iowa QB who has annoyed us these past years.

Iowa is losing a lot of players. If there was a year where we can get that monkey off our back against them it would be 2020.

There it is. Always look forward to when we get a commit and this comment pops up.

Fong CB for Wisky...

You have the expectations of this guy:

The talent on defense is there, it's it hasn't developed yet. It's a lot to ask for new guys, no matter how talented, to come in and face a potential top 25 offense for their first game.

I hope you are right, but I just don't see it. We are losing our entire starting DL, one who majorly helped this team in Daniels, our best cover corner, OLB talent is still subpar, ILB is still a question mark until proven otherwise, and we are playing a healthy Moore with a Purdue offense who is returning a majority of it's starters including Bell. That is way to many question marks going up against one of the top offensives on paper for 2020 we will face. I fully expect us to give up 40+.

It'll probably help him that our defense will be getting gashed as well. Probably worse than his is.

Agreed. Snodgrass is going to be a solid ST player.

.8901 or I guess more technically .890005

One who helped his team get to 3 NC's and the other being the #3 ranked QB prospect of all time behind Vince Young and Trevor Lawrence. It's not like they just took any QB cause their depth was hurting.

I think Thompkins is on a path like Tre Bryant sadly. I would love for him to get healthy, but that injury history is not pretty.

Haven't had much time to dive into it but here is a rough draft of what I would like to see next year.

While I don't think we can be a consistent top 10 recruiting program, I think we can consistently be in the top 12. With what the staff is capable of doing on the recruiting trail with the pipelines they currently have, all it takes is one good season for those flood gates to open. They have to show it on the field these next two years that this staff can make the changes to get this program moving forward, there are no more excuses of Riley's poison, so this season and next are the most important to what Frost and friends need to build to get us to where we can consistently have those top 12 classes. Once the on the field product matches what these coaches are selling these kids, then we should be on our way. I will hold my breath until that happens though.