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And that’s the equivalent of taking three four-year guys each class. In other words, enough to maintain a total of 12 scholarship OL on the roster at any given time. Again.. not nearly enough. I haven’t counted Hines or Rosenthal, who were converted DL - but Rosenthal left as well so it doesn’t change the numbers much.

When you look at guys with 4-star ratings or better, it’s even worse - 1.5 per year when you account for remaining eligibility and attrition. So enough to maintain six 4-star or better OL on the roster.

This makes sense as to why we are weak there but it just boggles my kind that we could do this.

I mean I’m not a football coach nor an expert, but if I were starting a college team the first thing I would do is build a strong O-line, every other position can be schemed around if you are weak there (even QB to some point), but if you have a weak O-line you will not be successful. Especially in the SEC

How do you not make the line your top priority EVERY CLASS?

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Posted by thunderbird1100

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Posted on 9/27/21 at 3:30 pm to Tiger1242

Here's the 2 OL classes you would expect a lot of starters from this year:

2018 - HS ranking
C. Smith - #2 OC ... transfer to MSU
B. Traore - #2 OT (Juco) ... gone after 2 years since JUCO
C. Hines - #16 OG ... struggling with weight, in/out of lineup
D. Rosenthal - #26 OT ... transferred to Kentucky
C. Wire - #28 OT ... missed last 3 games, but was starter at LT after Rosenthal transferred
D. Lewis - #2 OG (Juco) ... left after 2 years since JUCO

2019 - HS ranking
K. Thomas - #2 OG ... injury may have sidelined his career
R. Parker - #19 OT ... kicked off team
A. Bradford - #13 OG ... weight issues, rotational guy right now
C. Turner - #8 OC ... weight issues, been hurt last couple games
T. Perry - #32 OG ... injury may have sidelined his career

As you look at the 2018 and 2019 recruiting classes, you cant sit here and say for sure we got 1 quality starter from that bunch for this season, which is insane consider thats ELEVEN guys we brought in.

Now I hope Wire, Hines or Bradford become a quality starter, but right now you cant say that about any of them...and almost all the other guys have no hope it looks like of ever being a quality starter here.

This post was edited on 9/27/21 at 3:33 pm

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