'20 GA OL Tate Ratledge (UGA commit)

#827
#827
TAD said:
It will be sad if we can't pull this guy .. parents huge Vol fans ... that would 2 starters we have lost to GA ... Cade Mays and Tate ...
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If Cade doesn't start by next year, which is very likely, I bet he enters the portal. They say Sayler looks much better and even he's not starting year 2.
 
#838
#838
DaddyChad said:
Really likes Pittman. I still think this goes down to the wire if we play well this year.
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Sam Pittman seems to be the only thing standing in the way of us having an excellent oline. I like Will Friend, but we could have a two deep high 4*-5* OL across the board if he was here. I am so sick of seeing his name.
 
#842
#842
Bassmaster_Vol said:
I'm not saying they have to be elite. But last year was the worst offensive line I have ever seen. I'm not the only one who has said that. The guy who called our spring game was a former OL and he went on the Swain show and said the same thing. Not only did guys get dominated up front failing to make a push, but they completely whiffed on assignments all season long leading to JG taking direct hits over and over again.

I'm not saying they have to be elite this year. But if they aren't better than last year, then we have a real problem. And it has to be coaching being this is the second year here.
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It has to be coaching? Why? You can't make chicken salad out of chicken crap...well you can, but its gonna taste like crap. The OL sucking so bad had nothing to do with Friends ability as a coach, it had everything to do with the bad recruiting, entrenced soft laziness in the room, and injuries in some cases. I knew it would take years to fix that mess.
 
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#844
Ulysees E. McGill said:
It has to be coaching? Why? You can't make chicken salad out of chicken crap...well you can, but its gonna taste like crap. The OL sucking so bad had nothing to do with Friends ability as a coach, it had everything to do with the bad recruiting, entrenced soft laziness in the room, and injuries in some cases. I knew it would take years to fix that mess.
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So you think that if the OL doesn’t improve this year it has nothing to do with coaching?
 
#845
#845
Ulysees E. McGill said:
Sam Pittman seems to be the only thing standing in the way of us having an excellent oline. I like Will Friend, but we could have a two deep high 4*-5* OL across the board if he was here. I am so sick of seeing his name.
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I think our won-lost record has more weight on the quality of recruits, especially Olinemen. Except for T Smith, we recruited "projects " more often thna trying to recruit the best. We are stiill waithing for these guys to develop and that was made more difficult by some previous coaches letting players "skip" workouts in the weight room. Those days are behind us but we are still seeing the adverse outcomes of those practices. Bear Brynat learned a long time age that big fast-strong players win more games thannot so big fast-strong players. We will soon be playing with fast-strong football players.,
 
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#847
#847
Ulysees E. McGill said:
He may really be as good, but it doesn't matter if most people still believe Pittman is all that and a bag of chips.
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Other programs manage to win NC’s without him as their OL coach. If you can’t win without one guy then you’d find a way to not win WITH him.
 
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