Hoke says Barnum to Center

Submitted by kaykaybroke on

Kyle Meinke talked to Coach Hoke about position switches this spring. Although it's been rumored, he confirmed Ricky Barnum's switch to center, and disclosed a few more switches as well. 

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denardogasm

March 14th, 2012 at 1:37 PM ^

I think the lack of a really good tight end could hurt us more than any other position this year.  Koger was one of Denard's go-to guys last year and was an important short option for him in the new offense, more similar to the numerous slant and crossing options he had in the previous offense.  I hope he either gets more consistent (I do expect a big improvement), or is given a consistent short option by Borges in Dileo or Gallon.  I also think the receivers need to improve their route running dramatically this year.  They're not the fastest guys in the world, and they were not getting open with regularity last year.

Here2CWoodson

March 14th, 2012 at 10:22 AM ^

I sure hope Omameh improves from last year.  The coaches have him chalked up as a starter without question so maybe he played better than i thought, but I saw him get stood up and totally controlled too many times last year.  Maybe it was a RS Junior slump....

ish

March 14th, 2012 at 10:40 AM ^

moving barnum to center gives us a little more size and allows the coaches to run some more of the power schemes that we sucked at last year.

AmaizingBlue3

March 14th, 2012 at 5:04 PM ^

I hope both Miller and Bryant turn out to be great players because we need them on a (currently) thin O-Line! I hope Miller proves soon that he's our center of the future. I mean it won't be until 2014 that Patrick Kugler will be a redshirt freshman and Miller a redshirt junior (presumably).