Milt Tenopir outlines the unrealistic expectations on the o-line

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Interesting read on Milt's grasp of how the "pipeline" has evolved since the 80's and 90's. Understandably, a college football offensive line's responsibilities and reads have changed immensely with the high efficiency, passing schemes of teams today. Milt spells out the difference where “It's pretty easy to see the defensive back who gets beat. And when one of those big defensive ends gets by you and sacks the quarterback, they see you.

“These guys have a tough, tough job. People keep referring to the past. When you require your offensive tackle to get off the ball on a toss sweep, and then the next play you're trying to handle a guy who's 4.4 on the 40 on the edge and keep him away from your quarterback, that's a lot of work for a big old guy to do.”

 

reining in the kool-aid "pipeline" of old expectations, what would be a realistic goal husker fans should have for the o-line this year?

 

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