Rosebowl made a great point about OL

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Originally Posted by Hasu Dackds

In addition, you can't convince me that Deon Mix wouldn't at least be able to help on our OL this season, if nothing else, a backup.

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I'll say it without hesitation. I watched almost every game of Mix as a player at SP. He was big, but that was it. He was a big softie who didn't even do a good job of using his size to block people in HS. I said from the day he committed he would be a huge bust and I hope he went elsewhere. Dude doesn't belong in FCS, much less in the SEC.

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Originally Posted by Todd4State

It's not just recruiting with Hevesy.

We should have redshirted Jamaal Clayborn- and really had TWO chances to do so and did not. He would be our starting center this year. And it would have kept by far our best looking side of an o-line intact for this upcoming year because Jenkins could have stayed at LG and Rankins would be at LT. And if I'm not mistaken the only reason that left side of the line came together was after injuries- I think Calhoun got hurt, so we moved Desper to RG where I thought he fit much better than the LG spot we had him at originally- caused us to move people around.

I don't like his method of trying everyone out at every position. If we have a 6'9" OT- is there any point in trying him out at center? It tells me he can't figure out where everyone fits based on evaluation. And even then he misevaluates until injuries cause corrections.

I also don't like his idea of an 8 man rotation. I'm pretty sure he is getting that from the NFL. But it makes sense to do that in the NFL because they only can carry 53 players or whatever it is. In college you can dress out something like 72- so it makes much more sense in college to have two complete lines ready. That way you don't have a guy that has to worry as much about "swinging" to both LG/RG and LT/RT where they have to spend time learning both and making them less effective overall.

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The way Hev & Dan mismanaged Clayborn's eligibility is criminal. Been saying it for two years. Dude had NFL potential and we completely wasted him for no damned reason.