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Well yes we're losing 10 to the draft but how many we're difference makers? Reid didn't have a great year but is a loss because of leadership, Minter all around loss and the one that will hurt the most, Mingo and Montgomery are tough losses and are some of my favorite tigers but the name is bigger than the player with both of them, brad wing bad influence and the backup is just as good, ware and ford easily replaced, Logan won't hurt because of depth at the position, Chris Faulk played without him this year didn't we?, and tharold Simon- who was barely average IMO, only gets attention for his measurables and was also one of those bad influences. We have chief, very experieced backups at all those positions besides maybe DE and are only losing 1 true starter on offense. We are also getting back Tahj Jones and Alfred Blue

Look I am not saying that the we do not have talent behind those juniors that are leaving, we do. We also have a great recruiting class that we are signing this year with some freshman that will get playing time. But if you think for one freaking minute that losing all that senior leadership is not going to hurt, our opinions differ dramatically. Again I don't wish ill on the Tigers and I am not saying the sky is falling, I am just trying to put things in perspective. Inexperience is not preferred over experience which also comes with leadership. Also yes we did play all year long without Faulk and Hurst "for the most part" and look at what happened to our O-line in the chicken bowl they got DESTROYED. So it hurt plain and simple. Did they have games where they played well, yep. Did they have games where they played like sh*t yep. So don't think for one minute that Faulk didn't hurt because even Miles said it did.

Jakeyura only time will tell, I sure hope it doesn't hurt but with how tough our schedule is and how young our squad is, I just don't think that is going to be a great combination.

This post was edited on 1/28/13 at 11:44 am