I’m not saying Oregon isn’t young, more so it doesn’t seem like a valid excuse.StevensTechU wrote:With more and more highly rated recruits who are three-and-done or transfer when they don't pan out, being young should be expected as a new normal.
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I’m not a big fan of the youth excuse due to years of hearing it from Washington fans. Made me think Ponce de Leon should have been searching around Puget Sound.
There is some validity to it. You play the best available players, and you could win with a two deep that is heavy with underclassmen. But a 22-23 year old with time in the program benefiting from coaching, nutrition, the weight room, etc will have a big advantage over a younger player as long as size and talent aren’t overly disproportionate. As a coach you’d prefer the player has experience.
Even Alabama and Clemson have depth charts that favor upperclassmen for those reasons. Youth isn’t a problem, but when you’re literally the youngest team it can be. Relying on true freshmen or even sophomores too much isn’t ideal.
There is some validity to it. You play the best available players, and you could win with a two deep that is heavy with underclassmen. But a 22-23 year old with time in the program benefiting from coaching, nutrition, the weight room, etc will have a big advantage over a younger player as long as size and talent aren’t overly disproportionate. As a coach you’d prefer the player has experience.
Even Alabama and Clemson have depth charts that favor upperclassmen for those reasons. Youth isn’t a problem, but when you’re literally the youngest team it can be. Relying on true freshmen or even sophomores too much isn’t ideal.
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I saw a tweet a couple weeks ago, showing UO had the youngest roster in college football.OregonFan4Life wrote:I’m not saying Oregon isn’t young, more so it doesn’t seem like a valid excuse.StevensTechU wrote:With more and more highly rated recruits who are three-and-done or transfer when they don't pan out, being young should be expected as a new normal.
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I know that was the case on the offensive line. It was something like 1 start across the whole thing to start the season.buckmarkduck wrote:I saw a tweet a couple weeks ago, showing UO had the youngest roster in college football.OregonFan4Life wrote:I’m not saying Oregon isn’t young, more so it doesn’t seem like a valid excuse.StevensTechU wrote:With more and more highly rated recruits who are three-and-done or transfer when they don't pan out, being young should be expected as a new normal.
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And throw in the fact that our boys were told early on the season was canceled - while other teams were playing. It had to act as demotivation. We need to keep holding on until we get our rhythm back AND START TACKLING. We could have taken UCLA out of 3 of there scoring drives if there weren’t some horrible tackling on 3rd and reasonably longs. We start tackling well and everything changes.
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Zyme wrote:I know that was the case on the offensive line. It was something like 1 start across the whole thing to start the season.buckmarkduck wrote:I saw a tweet a couple weeks ago, showing UO had the youngest roster in college football.OregonFan4Life wrote:I’m not saying Oregon isn’t young, more so it doesn’t seem like a valid excuse.StevensTechU wrote:With more and more highly rated recruits who are three-and-done or transfer when they don't pan out, being young should be expected as a new normal.
The one I saw was specifically youngest rosters. UO was 1 and Stanford was 3 i think.