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2019 will be special?

insinceredawg
insinceredawg Member Posts: 5,117
edited October 2018 in Hardcore Husky Board
The TSIO guys have mentioned on their pod on more than one occasion that this year’s team will be the worse team we’ll field in the foreseeable future. The overall talent level is obviously on the rise but I tend to think we won’t have things really rolling until 2020. Next year’s offense with Skinny and most of the starters back (minus Myles and Kaleb) should be improved. However, on defense we are going to be breaking in new starters at every level. Gaines, Jaylen, BBK, Tevis, Miller, Murphy, JoJo, and Rapp are all likely gone after this year. Their replacements will be good eventually but that is a ton of experience we’re losing on one side of the ball. Convince me otherwise.
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  • Passion
    Passion Member Posts: 4,622
    edited October 2018
    Sorry, can't "convince you otherwise."

    Shitty recruiting on defense (except for DBs) is now catching up with us. Opposing QBs will have the cleanest uniforms in the building for the next year-and-a-half.

    Does the Heart of Dallas Bowl still exist?
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  • PostGameOrangeSlices
    PostGameOrangeSlices Member Posts: 28,085
    Miller and Murphy aren't as good as advertised. JoJo is really meh. BBK is good but not a big loss.

    What we need is a change in scheme. Hopefully all these badass DTs we redshirted are physically ready next year. Gaines and Vea were their sophomore years.
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  • HillsboroDuck
    HillsboroDuck Member Posts: 9,186
    McGary won't be back but yes the offense should be better.

    I'm starting to wonder if Murphy is guaranteed to go pro. Yes he has a kid. Yes I think he was planning to go pro this year. But he hasn't lit it up and his inability to come up with a single pick is glaring for a kid with his ball skills. If this continues I think he'll come back another year to improve his stock and prove what he can do because he's better than he's shown.

    But your big point is obviously spot on. We're going to have to get a lot of contributions from redshirt freshman next year if the defense is going to play at a high level. I have faith in this staff's ability to develop players and that class is really talented but there's definitely a lot of unknowns.

    Joyner was a huge loss for next season.
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  • AZDuck
    AZDuck Member Posts: 15,468
    This is year 5.

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  • insinceredawg
    insinceredawg Member Posts: 5,117
    Starting after the bye week, we need to get some true freshman into the rotation. Tuli, Taki, Sirmon, Tafisi, Kyler, Irvin, Dom, etc will all have big roles next year so it'll be beneficial to get them game experience this season.
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  • dhdawg
    dhdawg Member Posts: 13,326
    Rapp has been dropping on draft boards and is a true junior. I think he is far less likely to go pro than Murphy
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  • insinceredawg
    insinceredawg Member Posts: 5,117
    dhdawg said:

    Rapp has been dropping on draft boards and is a true junior. I think he is far less likely to go pro than Murphy

    Agree. Plus he's Asian and probably values his education so he has incentive to come back to finish up his degree.
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