'15 FL OL Tyree St. Louis

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My hope (not a belief or even a theory, just a hope) is that the coaches have seen enough from Blair, Kendrick, and Thomas (and maybe even Sanders) at tackle to think we're in pretty good shape there for the next 3 years. If that is the case, bringing in Jack Jones and Chance Hall as potential tackles this year, and adding Ryan Johnson and another quality tackle next year, could actually put us in pretty decent shape.
 
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highspeed said:
My hope (not a belief or even a theory, just a hope) is that the coaches have seen enough from Blair, Kendrick, and Thomas (and maybe even Sanders) at tackle to think we're in pretty good shape there for the next 3 years. If that is the case, bringing in Jack Jones and Chance Hall as potential tackles this year, and adding Ryan Johnson and another quality tackle next year, could actually put us in pretty decent shape.
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Solid thinking IMO.
 
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highspeed said:
My hope (not a belief or even a theory, just a hope) is that the coaches have seen enough from Blair, Kendrick, and Thomas (and maybe even Sanders) at tackle to think we're in pretty good shape there for the next 3 years. If that is the case, bringing in Jack Jones and Chance Hall as potential tackles this year, and adding Ryan Johnson and another quality tackle next year, could actually put us in pretty decent shape.
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Yeah I see in 2016
LT: Blair (I hope), Johnson, Kendrick
LG: Mosely, Boulware
C: Weisman, Thomas
RG: Robertson, Raulerson
RT: Jones, Stewart, Sanders

Unsure about Richmond (flip) and hall (injury)
Need maybe another G and T for 2016
 
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I would hope that CBJ would be able to make the hard decision to cut ties with anyone on his staff not performing at a championship level. Mahoney seems to be that coach.
 
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keckjm said:
Cough...Cough... Mahoney...Im not trying to beat a dead horse here, but how many reports/interviews have surfaced from people/players praising Mahoney for his coaching, etc? When Butch came here, by April, I was hearing interviews from d-line players talking about how good Coach Strip was. Walls even went as far as stating that he had learned more about football technique/etc. in four months under Coach Strip than he had learned all years prior.

We now know Walls wasn't bluffing. We didn't play one DT over 300 pounds regularly this year, and we still had a very productive defense. Maggit/Barnett have been monsters under Strip.

Mahoney, up until this point, hasn't "wowed" anyone. Players notice these things. They see how bad our o-line is, and how we continue to make the same mistakes game after game. Had Dobbs not played any this year, we'd be sitting at 5-7 with 50+ sacks given up. Our o-line problems were masked by Dobbs ability to run.

At the end of the day, Mahoney's coaching and recruiting is very questionable. His starting 5 was questionable from the get go, and his reluctance to change it was also questionable. I'm sick of hearing the excuses. I know Dooley scre@ed us. I also know that in 2.5 years Mahoney has recruited 2 true OT prospects. That's not acceptable in the SEC.
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100% in agreement with all of this. Glaring weakness on the field? OL. Glaring weakness on the staff? Mahoney. Something's gotta give...
 
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As its already been stated in this thread, my biggest issue with Mahoney was his starting 5 starting the season. Sanders played T in high school, so did Kerbs, Kendrick, and Blair. Yet, our best option was to start a freshman who never played T in high school on a regular bases, if ever? That makes zero sense. You can build for the future all you want, but when the entire right side of the o-line can't block my grandmother there's an issue. After the OK game, Sanders, Kendrick, and Blair should have had a try out. The best man wins the starting spot.

Thomas should have been redshirted and kept at C. Thomas, IMO, will be our starting C one day, and a good one at that. He wasn't ready physically to start in the SEC this year, and he got abused in a position he hasnt played a ton in. Terrible idea to put him at RT.

The Sanders situation still puzzles me. I don't agree with the idea that he's strickly a G. He has RT all over him. Kendrick too. Those guys should have been given a shot to play on Saturday. I don't care about practice, I wanted to see Sanders and Kendrick at RT after the OK massacre. Personally, I'd still like to see Kendrick/Blair/Sanders take over the two OT spots, with Kerbs being the backup. Our freshman need to redshirt, and in 2016, we need to obtain a JuCo OT along with two true LT prospects. We have one LT prospect already, so we need another freshman and a JuCo player IMO.
 
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Catbone said:
Well, I just hope Butch would swallow his pride and fire him if he knows he is underperforming aftet next year.
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Would never happen, but imo it would be cool if fulmer swallowed his pride and offered to coach ol since he loves the school so much and help get back to championship level. Would be awkward for him and others. Id trust him tho if I were cbj
 
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Per P Fort

Don Mahoney was in Florida to visit with Tyree St. Louis and the four-star offensive lineman told us the visit went well and that he's looking forward to his official visit in January. This weekend he will take his first official visit to Syracuse where has several friends and former teammates from the Tampa, Fla., area.
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If Bielema were to accept the job at Nebraska, I'd expect more HIRE SAM PITTMAN threads on here.
 
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Catbone said:
I just still find it odd that we are recruiting very well yet no really good OT's want to join when they could have early playing time on a rapidly improving team
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Two words......







MacKenzie / Tuttle

Edit - two more......






Barnett/maggit
 
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keckjm said:
Cough...Cough... Mahoney...Im not trying to beat a dead horse here, but how many reports/interviews have surfaced from people/players praising Mahoney for his coaching, etc? When Butch came here, by April, I was hearing interviews from d-line players talking about how good Coach Strip was. Walls even went as far as stating that he had learned more about football technique/etc. in four months under Coach Strip than he had learned all years prior.

We now know Walls wasn't bluffing. We didn't play one DT over 300 pounds regularly this year, and we still had a very productive defense. Maggit/Barnett have been monsters under Strip.

Mahoney, up until this point, hasn't "wowed" anyone. Players notice these things. They see how bad our o-line is, and how we continue to make the same mistakes game after game. Had Dobbs not played any this year, we'd be sitting at 5-7 with 50+ sacks given up. Our o-line problems were masked by Dobbs ability to run.

At the end of the day, Mahoney's coaching and recruiting is very questionable. His starting 5 was questionable from the get go, and his reluctance to change it was also questionable. I'm sick of hearing the excuses. I know Dooley scre@ed us. I also know that in 2.5 years Mahoney has recruited 2 true OT prospects. That's not acceptable in the SEC.
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Sure seems like you're beating a dead horse. Same thing over and over in half the threads.
 
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