- 2007 - Chris Little - transfer/host of issues
2007 - Sturdivant - injured
2007 - Boling - star
2008 - Glenn - star
2008 - Harmon - transfer/grades
2009 - Austin Long - injured
2010 - Benedict - transfer/injured
2010 - Gates - better suited to guard/starter
2010 - Houston - roids/NCAA
2011 - Ward - injured/young/small
2011 - Dantzler - injured much of this year
2011 - DeBell - I have no idea
2012 - Beard - typical juco backup
2012 - Theus - overmatched freshman doing his best
The good news...if Tunsil commits/stays healthy and Theus makes the normal Year 2 improvements, we'll have two blue chippers on campus at OT for the first time since Foster and Stinchcomb played together.
And that was a mighty long time ago.
PWD
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If your sample size is 5 years or more, it's not a matter of luck.
No amount of talent will matter until we have a coach that can coach up the talent and win big games.
Agreed overall. But there is certainly some luck in there with Sturdy, Long and Benedict. If any of those 4-5 star OTs had been 2-3 year starters it would have changed the course of multiple games.
We are recruiting too few elite OTs. That's the real moral of the story to me.
Think back to the 2004 UGA at AU game. I believe if you swap Dan Inman for Marcus McNeil ( a trade off Callaway actually made ) then I'm not sure the outcome of those 2 teams seasons would have been the same.
So this issue has been around for a while.
I also think this is where Nick Saban's oversigning really pays off. The kids who aren't panning out, like a Long, Ward, or Debell, he'd "advise" going elsewhere, and replace them with another blue chip type. OL recruiting is the toughest recruiting in football imo, and cutting the bad choices while increasing your overall # of possible good choices allows for their monster OLs while we struggle to come up with a decent first unit.
You list Glenn as "star", but I can't get the image of him being repeatedly schooled by Boise's DEs out of my head. He's obviously a star in the sense that he's now a starting NFL LT as a rookie, but he did not play to his level of talent while in college. My point being, I wonder how good the offensive line coaching really is at UGA.
You mean schooled by Shea McClellin, the 1st round draft pick that is being groomed to be Brian F'ing Urlacher's successor? That guy?
Glenn was just a run of the mill, 50 game starter in the SEC, who was an All-American. Playing out of position. Yeah, that guy sucked.
This is why it's infuriating that we've been leaving scholarships on the table when we have GLARING needs.
Disagree. It's not a recruiting or bad luck/injuries issue.
The issue is much simpler: Richt has never really wanted a physical offensive line. It's simply not a priority.
(Compare the way our OL played vs. SCU and the way LSU's (with 2 freshman) played vs. SCU. Miles makes physical OL play a priority.)
Often in life things are the way they are because that's how people want them.
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