i believe everyone has known this since spring football....it will be 2-3 yrs till we really see the type of oline that kiffin wants...he wants lean, fast, physical lineman and Fulmer left him with out of shape slow guys that have a lot of size...Kiffin needs these guys firing off the line and getting deep consistently which isnt happening enough
I thought for sure our o'line would be able to make some holes or atleast keep ucla's d'line out of our back field. After the performance on saturday it wouldn't be a stretch by any means to say we're in trouble. Even if stephens gets the start soon he'll be running away from d'lineman like compton was doing yesterday.
But hey...like one of the posters above said we can use this a recruting tool. I never was expecting much from our team this year. Even with the new coaching staff its not big O's gonna get out there and knock people around. All they can do is coach up our boys the best they can. 2011 we''ll be singing a different tune i can promise you. Go Vols