Starting OL

Submitted by Braylon1 on
What I wish could workout LT - Omameh LG - QWash C - Molk RG - Barnum RT - Schilling Expected line up LT- Omameh LG- Shilling OC- Molk RG- Huyge or Barnum RT- Dorrstein or Huyge What do you guys think?
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rbgoblue

February 10th, 2010 at 12:41 PM ^

I think that the idea behind the "hope for list" was simply that it would be nice to see that our younger talent, or that with the highest upside, players were developing to the point where they were the best on our team. It would bode well, not only for improvement over last season, but for excellent line play for the next 2-3 years.

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mejunglechop

February 10th, 2010 at 1:04 PM ^

Yeah I get that, but if we see young players starting it could just as easily mean that the upperclassmen went backward or made no progress. Maybe that's unlikely, but the point remains, a young player starting only says something about his development relative to the other players. Also what do we know about a given player's upside? Sometimes the top 100 guy has the upside of Adam Patterson and the 3* guy has the upside of David Harris, but we only realize it when they're upperclassmen.

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AKWolverine

February 10th, 2010 at 1:18 PM ^

This is correct: "a young player starting only says something about his development relative to the other players." But having seen those "other players" play, we already know something about them: like how good they are compared to other teams' lineman, and maybe former Michigan lineman. They offer a known benchmark, against which we can measure the young guys (sure the "other players" could theoretically have gotten better or worse since last year, but likely not by much...at this point we pretty much know what they're about). Think of it this way: if Nick Sheridan had started the first game (or the first 6 games) this past season, wouldn't that have told you something about Tate Forcier and Denard Robinson?

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jaggs

February 10th, 2010 at 12:44 PM ^

we don't need every schmoe off the street with their depth chart predictions, its very KeM0 like. If you do want to start an entire new thread to discuss a topic that was just brought up on the front page, bring something more than a list. Bring some reasons, analysis for your post, otherwise its just clutters up the board and makes it more likely good posts will be missed.

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jtmc33

February 10th, 2010 at 12:33 PM ^

Koyote's is my wish list. If Lewan can step in at LT everything falls into place from day one. If not, then we have Omameh, Barnum, Huyge, Dorrestein, QWash and possibly Ferrera playing musical chairs for 3 spots. Also, it appears that Omameh may be the future "2-star that became a star" example everyone uses when talking about over-emphasis on recruit rankings.

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West Texas Blue

February 10th, 2010 at 12:27 PM ^

Schilling played tackle before and was pretty meh. He's a guard all the way; he has the LG position locked down. The lineup I'd expect to see: LT - Omameh LG - Schilling C- Molk RG - Barnum RT - Huyge

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jtmc33

February 10th, 2010 at 12:48 PM ^

I think it's only Rocko Khoury at this point -- only Molk, Moosman, and Khoury snapped last year; and IIRC, Khoury only got in the Del. St. game. Pace will be red-shirted, but is going to be Molk-2.0 (small, angry, mean, and good) Not sure if we have any other lineman who've worked at Center on the roster.

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Magnus

February 10th, 2010 at 1:04 PM ^

Mealer practiced at center a little bit last year, so I'd assume he's the third-stringer there. Barnum was projected as a center coming out of high school, but he's been a guard and a tackle in college. I guess he'd be an emergency option, but hopefully we don't have to worry about that.

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