Keenan Pili Injured?

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Stoerner Fumbles said:
Beasley’s calling is being free to take the ball after a play develops. He’s been great covering space, qb runs and short passes. He can help call plays and set defenses, but we don’t want to lose his range or coverage.
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Hopefully Herring is comfortable in that role then. Looks like he has no choice but to adapt fast
 
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butchna said:
Eli Herring played in all 11 regular season games last season. Bennett was heavily “experienced”. We upgraded with talented freshmen.
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LB was the weakest position on the team last year outside of DB. If Herring, Bennett, or a newcomer steps up then great. You don't count them as tried and true until they make a difference on the field. Until then having one guy that is an experienced playmaker is always concerning. It's a risk until someone shows they're ready. I like the potential.
 
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BreatheUT said:
LB was the weakest position on the team last year outside of DB. If Herring, Bennett, or a newcomer steps up then great. You don't count them as tried and true until they make a difference on the field. Until then having one guy that is an experienced playmaker is always concerning. It's a risk until someone shows they're ready. I like the potential.
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Pili wasn't tried and true in Knoxville.
 
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BreatheUT said:
I'm not sure why this is so hard for some to get.
The potential is there but losing an experienced playmaker who came in as an instant starter is concerning.
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Yup…just imagine if on offense we had to plan to rely on Nico only already. And LB is not an easy position to just step into. Glad we have Beasly; but if he goes out for an injury, we will really be hurting.
 
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butchna said:
Pili wasn't tried and true in Knoxville.
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He is still about six years older and has seen that much more football and that much more of life. So much of the positive talk we had around him in fall camp was about his maturity. So now that he’s out, are we really going to pretend we didn’t say and hear all that?
Not say the sky is falling, just that, if we were going to lose a player, he would probably be in my top 5 of one’s I didn’t want to lose.
 
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OrangeTsar said:
He is still about six years older and has seen that much more football and that much more of life. So much of the positive talk we had around him in fall camp was about his maturity. So now that he’s out, are we really going to pretend we didn’t say and hear all that?
Not say the sky is falling, just that, if we were going to lose a player, he would probably be in my top 5 of one’s I didn’t want to lose.
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Ok...didn't change my opinion.
 
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OrangeTsar said:
Yup…just imagine if on offense we had to plan to rely on Nico only already. And LB is not an easy position to just step into. Glad we have Beasly; but if he goes out for an injury, we will really be hurting.
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It's what happened against South Carolina last year though the younger guys are a year older.
 
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BreatheUT said:
I'm not sure why this is so hard for some to get.
The potential is there but losing an experienced playmaker who came in as an instant starter is concerning.
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You don't seem to understand that all of Pili's experience weren't even in the Eastern United States? He is more raw in the defense than Eli Herring and Herring is about the same size physically. It is a loss for certain, but even without Pili our LB Corp is far stronger than last year. Arion Carter is physically ready to play and there are multiple options they can use. We are weaker than last week, but nit dead. We will get a chance to see how they adapt to a smaller rotation in this weekend's scrimmage.
 
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BreatheUT said:
It's what happened against South Carolina last year though the younger guys are a year older.
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By the time Hooker left that game, it was already out of reach. Plus Milton had already been here two full seasons. Arian Carter is in his second GAME.
 
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KeyVol14 said:
Agreed. Let's see how Herring and Carter do
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Jeremiah Toelander is ready to contribute to...I still can't believe that Roman Harrison hasn't broken out yet and really started making a hell of a difference on that defense. He's been there 5 years and showed nothing like to caliber of player he should've been coming outta high school. It;s almost as though he comes and plays like man possessed at times and then just shows up to play like he doesn't belong up there on the HILL....
 
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OrangeTsar said:
By the time Hooker left that game, it was already out of reach. Plus Milton had already been here two full seasons. Arian Carter is in his second GAME.
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And Herring’s in his FOURTEENTH.
 
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BreatheUT said:
After this there was no reason to keep reading. Keep doing 200 curls of those 2 gram chips and dip though.
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You keep being you. At least one person will care. I made a comment earlier in another thread abouy the well thought out and intelligent posts on the topic. Don't see that evidence here.
 
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EtowahVol said:
Would he qualify for a med redshirt?
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Good question...he has already taken a redshirt season but not sure if you can have both a regular AND a medical redshirt. However, I think after this year they really want Carter/Telander/Herring to be ready and hopefully Pili can come back and contribute for the back half of the schedule.
 
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