Down Two Joneses and a Pace

 I think there is a difference between a coach using an injury as an excuse to get rid of a kid and a kid having a legit career ending injury.

Oversigning takes place the summer after the recruits sign... Not the summer before.

No it isn't. Forcing kids into grayshirts after they've signed and giving medicals to guys without documented histories of injuries to sign more guys is.

Both Pace (back) and Jones (knee) have documented medical issues. We've known this for months and medicals have been hinted at for just as long.

I can't see someone like Bryant, who is pretty massive, moving to center.  So, it looks like there are few choices beyond Miller and Stacey, the only dedicated interior guys.

I know OL recruits move around a lot, but how often to OTs end up at OC? We have a number of OT/OG types (Posada, Bars,  Kalis), but I don't know that any project to go all the way to Center.

Projecting OL is generally pretty foolish, but they frequently don't pan out, so this is an area of concern.

You're right.  From what I understand, Pace had knee problems before he even stepped on campus.  There was a lot of talk last season about him probably never being able to play because of it, so I think it's safe to say it wasn't a recent thing

the meme that he wasn't bright, which is objectively untrue, period. He turned out to be the wrong coach for us, but anyone that says he wasn't a bright offensive mind simply doesn't know football. Stoops, Meyer and coaches of that ilk don't go visiting a coach to learn the fine points of their offensive scheme if said coach is not bright. Those coaches felt RR had something to teach them, and I'll take that show of respect over disgruntled M fans any day.

Maybe, but that will entirely depend on what else happens. Jones dismissal and 3 medicals still only puts us at 22. If we're looking at 26 then we still need some transfers/non-renewals etc.

FWIW, some of the premium site writers have said all of these medicals were anticipated and factored in to the staff's plan to take 25-26 guys this class. None of these departures (except for K.Jones) were totally unexpected.

This does need to be watched.  I hate to say it, but a lot of our roster is made up of people who aren't sized / skilled for what the current staff wants.  How they're handled is a legimate concern.  

...backwards. Abuse of the medical scholarship by Bama is a tool they use to support their oversigning strategy. Michigan announcing that they have student-athletes who will be on medical scholarship before trhey complete their class is simply not "oversigning". 

You can stand down the hypocrisy watch. 

And beneath you. And the flaccid "Edit" doesn't do much. The pretty chart has pretty colors, but it's a ridiculously small sample size and means nothing but illustrates Bama is way excessive. Anecdotally it seems to me that we have one of these every year or every other year, which isn't that far off, but maybe significant. Two in one season isn't common, but going a year without one would be too. If your looking at the non-Bama number, at least a ten year span for the SEC would be nice. Or even better, a look at Michigan from at least Carr through the present to see our numbers.



Basically saying something is fishy is an accusation, not a "this bears further watch". But the fact that timeline and logic doesn't really make much sense, it comes off as still more sour grapes from those that would rather cling to a funk of a failed era than be happy we recruiting our asses off. You don't have to worry about Hoke working with class or character. Continued remarks like this in these spaces is beginning to make me wonder if the same can be said here.

Especially with our recruiting situation, I think this is pretty clearly a "good result" in terms of strictly for the benefit of wins and losses or at least you can easily make that argument

That in and of itself is a perverse incentive, and one that we(you) SHOULD keep an eye on