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Re: Position change
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2013 1:54 pm
by JasonB
Three comments:
1) More confirmation that Stallion is right - some of our backups suck. They don't want to play Reed at DT anymore, so are moving him.
2) Hollie will rotate as the second string NT from here on out, and get significant playing time. UCF will gash us if we don't strengthen the interior and the number of rushing yards UConn put up had folks concerned.
3) Looks to me like there are going to be two types of RBs moving forward - Power back (Line and Reed) and the scat back (Lagasse, Sims). Line isn't big enough yet to use as a battering ram in goaline and short distance situations, so the Wembley experiment will start again, but hopefully without the fumbles.
Re: Position change
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2013 2:01 pm
by East Coast Mustang
So we're blowing Hollie's RS? We better make a bowl if so.
Re: Position change
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2013 2:06 pm
by PonySnob
fifty wrote:I was hoping the position change would be Line, P. moving to the position of KC's backup.
Or moving him to LB.....
Re: Position change
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2013 2:12 pm
by Stallion
here's SMU's Participation Chart from smumustangs.com. Another wasted redshirt is Nate Halverson
http://www.smumustangs.com/sports/m-foo ... l#IGBG.PLY
Re: Position change
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2013 2:22 pm
by East Coast Mustang
...and Ced Lancaster. And Daniel McCarty
Re: Position change
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2013 2:34 pm
by ponyinNC
This kind of stuff is why people call for JJ to be fired despite 4 straight bowls - there is no plan for the future when we burn redshirts for 1 or 2 plays a year. Disgusting.
Our next HC is going to have his work cut out for him, becuase JJ is leaving the cupboard bare - just like he did at Hawaii!
Re: Position change
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2013 2:36 pm
by East Coast Mustang
ponyinNC wrote:This kind of stuff is why people call for JJ to be fired despite 4 straight bowls - there is no plan for the future when we burn redshirts for 1 or 2 plays a year. Disgusting.
Our next HC is going to have his work cut out for him, becuase JJ is leaving the cupboard bare - just like he did at Hawaii!
I really hope some of those guys can get maybe get medical Redshirts. Seaver Myers played a few plays in the Baylor game last year and then got a medical RS.
New coach will also need some serious JUCO connections....Willie Fritz, come on down!
Re: Position change
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2013 2:37 pm
by Roach
Lancaster got hurt -- can't blame that, and can't predict that. Someone on here wrote that Seeker got his bell rung in practice, so maybe this is a precautionary thing, an emergency plan for the last 4 games of the season, and if it doesn't work, Reed could go back to NT in the spring. McCleneghen backed up Wright in the middle for much of the season, and presumably will do so again. Besides, sliding him back inside would mean more reps for Minor at DE.
All in all, this sounds like a nothing-to-lose move.
Re: Position change
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2013 2:40 pm
by ponydawg
Re: Position change
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2013 2:50 pm
by RGV Pony
Got off a plane fired up tapatalk and I see this.
Can't make this stuff up.
Re: Position change
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2013 2:51 pm
by PonyKai
Jeremy Johnson's draft stock wishes he didn't blow a worthless freshman season landing 1 catch.
Re: Position change
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2013 4:11 pm
by SMU 86
I hope we don't blow Spencer Hollie's redshirt this late in the season with only 3 games to go. From my understanding Hollie was reshirting to work in the weight room for year which he needed.
Re: Position change
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2013 4:19 pm
by Stallion
maybe SID could tell us whether SMU's Participation Stats are official? They've got so many players wearing double numbers these days it seems it would be hard to keep up with.
Re: Position change
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2013 5:15 pm
by Treadway21
ponyinNC wrote:This kind of stuff is why people call for JJ to be fired despite 4 straight bowls - there is no plan for the future when we burn redshirts for 1 or 2 plays a year. Disgusting.
Our next HC is going to have his work cut out for him, becuase JJ is leaving the cupboard bare - just like he did at Hawaii!
Yes. If these moves made some semblance if sense then maybe. But in retrospect wasted years.
Re: Position change
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2013 5:37 pm
by ponyinNC
Treadway21 wrote:ponyinNC wrote:This kind of stuff is why people call for JJ to be fired despite 4 straight bowls - there is no plan for the future when we burn redshirts for 1 or 2 plays a year. Disgusting.
Our next HC is going to have his work cut out for him, becuase JJ is leaving the cupboard bare - just like he did at Hawaii!
Yes. If these moves made some semblance if sense then maybe. But in retrospect wasted years.
especially for solid contributors like Johnson, Halverson, and for guys that just need more time to develop physically like Hollie.