Ronnie Feist transfer - bad for LB depth?

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Means nothing.

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As you could have guessed, I disagree with you. We are extremely thin at LB unless we move some guys around.

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bad for LB depth

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No, inconsequential for LB depth. Feist moved to FB last year.

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unless we move some guys around.

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Aranda is doing that now, Corey Thompson is moving there in the spring, Devin Voorhies moved last year.

You have numbers but thin in experience. In passing downs/spread offenses, you probably will only have two traditional linebackers on the field. KB might even be at rush end with Adams and one other at linebacker.
KB with either Alexander/CT/Riley/voorhies/divinity or fowler. I think someone will emerge

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Him leaving is a sign that he wasn't going to play much. That should tell you everything.

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Possible, but also potentially short-sighted. Although unfathomable to most, who knows what other personal reasons RF may have for leaving.

Purely as an example, it's not too farfetched to ponder he may want a career in coaching football one day and Frank said "Come join me for a year then l'll give you a GA position and help teach you the ropes."

Unless you know him personally it's a stretch for you to proclaim the absolute reason for him leaving.

we have divinity and fowler, and white may move to LB, who is the possible 4th?

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What does his transfer mean for our LB depth?
Do we even have the personnel to play a 3-4 this year?
Will we move some DEs to OLB (e.g., Bower, Teuhema) and OLBs to MLB (e.g., Riley)?
Will we rely on incoming freshmen? We will start incoming freshmen?

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who knows.
yes.
prob will move DEs to OLB if running a 3-4, and I'd look to Key first if so.
almost definite that we'll play a few freshmen, if for no other reason than to get em experience for 17.
if a freshman is worthy of starting, sure.

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Or do we just say screw it and stick with the 4-3 this year with Beckwith-Riley-Alexander as the starting trio?

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as has been noted, Dave* will adapt the defense to his personnel. there was an article about him just before he left Wisconsin where Barry Alvarez said you can't necessarily peg Dave's scheme as being one thing, 3-4 or 4-3 or whatever. just know that he's gonna field a sound, nasty bunch. #InDaveWeTrust

* we're cool like that

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we have divinity and fowler, and white may move to LB, who is the possible 4th?

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Thornton will play LB

White is the possible 4th

and Andre Anthony is a perfect rush end for the 3-4

The question is, is it bad for linebacker depth. One poster pointed out that he was not even playing at linebacker anymore, had been moved to fullback, and that got two downvotes lol.
Hilarious that common sense is downvoted