- No senior offensive linemen so leadership is a question mark
- No returning player that will be at the same position as last year
- Starting three sophomores and a true freshman
- The only junior starter has been playing OL for only two years
- And you're going to see them play the toughest schedule in the country
The OL situation worries me. It's not a talent issue. We have talent coming out of our ears. It's just an experience question.
It's true that a group with less depth and less overall physical ability lead Georgia to an 11 win season last year, but that group took some time to develop. It also had great senior leadership. I think this group will be pretty amazing later in the year. I just hope they can hang on and gel through the early games.
Thank heavens for Stacey Searels. I'm not trying to be doom and gloom. The news on the isn't bad...it's just that 75 years of SEC history says OLs this young usually don't win titles.
That said...you have to love this quote from Richt's media days (paraphrase b/c I saw it in the video, and I can't find it in anyone's article)...on Cordy Glenn. "He's got a big body, and when we run people at him..they don't seem to get very far. So yeah...he's going to play."
See Also:
-- Josh Davis settles in at RT - DawgPost
-- Searels lets his work do the talking - AJC
-- Practice Notes - David Hale
-- Vance Making Strides - ABH (very good news)
-- Glenn moves up the Depth Chart - ABH
PWD
