Emergency DT options...

[RuhlandAsherBestEver]

Phenom +1000

[oregontrack]

There were times in the past when we couldn't recruit a RB or WR to save our lives. People freaked out in exactly the same way they are now about defensive tackles. Such is life. Was it 2005 that we then broke through and signed Snoop, JJ, and Terrell Jackson all in the same class? In two or three years we'll land a class for four talented DTs and people will be wondering why we spent so many scholarships on DTs, when what we REALLY need is a good WR... blah.

I posted this in another thread, but... we won our only BCS bowl to date with a former walk-on and a redshirt freshman starting at DT. We'll be fine.

Here's to a fun LOI for all.

[greenyellow]

There were times in the past when we couldn't recruit a RB or WR to save our lives. People freaked out in exactly the same way they are now about defensive tackles. Such is life. Was it 2005 that we then broke through and signed Snoop, JJ, and Terrell Jackson all in the same class? In two or three years we'll land a class for four talented DTs and people will be wondering why we spent so many scholarships on DTs, when what we REALLY need is a good WR... blah.

I posted this in another thread, but... we won our only BCS bowl to date with a former walk-on and a redshirt freshman starting at DT. We'll be fine.

Here's to a fun LOI for all.

But to consistently compete at the level that Kelly wants to, it's going to take more than walk-ons to get the job done. We don't have DTs period, walk-ons or scholarships. They've gotten into this situation by recruiting marginal academic players they more than likely knew weren't getting in and didn't have back-up plans. While the DL coaching change didn't help, that can't explain the whole situation they've placed themselves in. If they don't get any this year, they are going to have to take about 6 DTs to make up for a couple bad years of DL recruiting.