Quote Originally Posted by HancockCountyDog View Post
I think we are going to miss the seniors on this team. When you add in the schedule in 2017, I'd slow down on next year being "the" year.
We should in theory have a QB by next year with one year of experience returning.

Malik Dear will be a junior and will be a force.

We WILL start Aeris Williams at worst at running back with the rest being some combination of Gibson, Lee, Murphy and maybe even Kylin Hill. We'll see as it is obviously too soon to know about Hill.

We will miss Ross and I have heard that Gray wants to go to the NFL if he can but we will see what kind of season he has first. We return Myles and Dear at worst and Couch will have a year under his belt. Probably Gray returns as well if I had to guess.

All of our TE's come back and should be better.

We lose Clayborn, Desper, and Senior but return Jenkins, Calhoun, and Rankin. The biggest need is at center and we really need at least one of the JUCO's to step in and really probably could use a JUCO center otherwise we're going with Moon.

We get Co-Lin's Dline plus we return Simmons, Adams, and Kobe Jones who were all four stars or better.

Green, Lewis, Jung, and Gray all return at linebacker even though we will miss Richie Brown.

Durr and Smokey will be back at corner with a year under their belt and then we will have Peters and McLaurin at safety if Bryant goes to the NFL after this year. If Bryant comes back our safeties will be even better plus we add Landrews.

Both of our kickers will be back and will be seniors. Some talented returners as well in Mixon and Thomas among others such as Dear.

We will always miss seniors every year. That's the nature of college football. But I see a LOT of talent coming back next year and a lot fewer questions than this year. Not to mention a lot of experience as well. The schedule will be fine- we should be 5-0 between OOC and Kentucky right off the bat assuming BYU leaves their officials at home.