re: Will O pull scholarship offers in order to bring in more linemen?

I'd like to see us take too many OT, convert them to G if necessary, instead of the other way around. If you have to choose, and with recruiting you sometimes do, that's the way to go. UGA (and Bama) usually go for 3 OTs a cycle if there's enough with talent out there. And they probably avg around 5 total OL a year, meaning 2 OGs and 3 OTs. It works for them.

Converting OTs to G or C, when you avg. 2 OTs a year is crazy to me.

Problem is, you can only "catch up" so much per year. If you're playing catch up with any group with 3 or more per position it's tough. OL are the toughest, you have 5 and OTs are a specialist. So if we went out and got 8 in '18 we'd be caught with pants down 3-4 yrs from now OR another group would suffer over the same time period, or both.