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re: Now that most teams have posted their 2-deep-which team is the youngest
Posted on 8/29/12 at 12:17 pm to Ace Midnight
Posted on 8/29/12 at 12:17 pm to Ace Midnight
On a related note, Alabama lists 72 out of 116 players on their roster who are Freshmen or Sophomores. Auburn lists 75 out of 108.
Not a big enough difference for the Auburn staff to use this as a crutch, IMO.
Tidesports.com and Auburnsports.com were my references. Those numbers may be off by one or two a piece. Should be pretty close to dead on though.
Not a big enough difference for the Auburn staff to use this as a crutch, IMO.
Tidesports.com and Auburnsports.com were my references. Those numbers may be off by one or two a piece. Should be pretty close to dead on though.
This post was edited on 8/29/12 at 12:19 pm
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Posted on 8/29/12 at 1:06 pm to allin2010
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That is certainly part of it, numbers can be twisted. Auburn has 13 seniors I believe. Two years ago, Auburn had 2 juniors leave early. Alabama had 3 last year.. Trent Richardson, Dont’a Hightower and Dre Kirkpatrick, not sure how many in 2010 (Ingram, others?).
2010 & 2011 Bama teams each lost 3 JRs to the NFL.
Dareus, Jones, and Ingram in 2010 & Richardson, Dre, and Donta in 2011 (all 1st round picks).
Posted on 8/29/12 at 1:08 pm to Tuscaloosa
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Not a big enough difference for the Auburn staff to use this as a crutch, IMO.
They are doing this how?
Posted on 8/29/12 at 2:01 pm to NYCAuburn
Our defense isn't that young, but our offense for the most part is. The best part about our defense with the exception of Lemonier maybe going pro early, we'll return the entire DL and secondary, except for Bell and the LB's will be an upgrade from what we have this year. Same goes for our offense in terms of returning players. The entire 2-3 deep on the OL except for Sullen, and whoever takes his spot will be an upgrade.
As for the offense, the OL is extremely young and the QB is a soph, so there's definitely that. And the depth behind Lutz Omac and Blake is basically all either soph or freshmen.
As for whoever said our 09 class should be seniors and Tubs last class(08) Rseniors, the only players left from Tubs last class are Omac and Bell. 21 of the 29 that signed that year either never made it into school or didn't remain on the team through their senior years, so we really didn't have much to work with in this class. So only 2 of the 29 are left.
And regardless of how much time Chizik had to recruit the 09 class, it was only about a month, so he had to piece together what he could from Tubs class and recruit who he could in a months time. 15 of those 28 never made it in for various reasons(one was baseball) or are no longer on the team, including some who have graduated or left early(Fairley).
So 15 players remain on the team from the 08/09 classes.
So the majority of the starters this year will be from the 10 and 11 classes with a few from the 08/09 and several freshmen and Rfreshmen.
And with the turnover in coordinators and bringing in new systems on top of how badly they played last year(while still winning 8 games), gives anyone outside the program reason to believe that there won't be huge improvement - i.e. the Vegas over/under on wins.
There's only one way to really find out though, and that starts this Saturday.
As for the offense, the OL is extremely young and the QB is a soph, so there's definitely that. And the depth behind Lutz Omac and Blake is basically all either soph or freshmen.
As for whoever said our 09 class should be seniors and Tubs last class(08) Rseniors, the only players left from Tubs last class are Omac and Bell. 21 of the 29 that signed that year either never made it into school or didn't remain on the team through their senior years, so we really didn't have much to work with in this class. So only 2 of the 29 are left.
And regardless of how much time Chizik had to recruit the 09 class, it was only about a month, so he had to piece together what he could from Tubs class and recruit who he could in a months time. 15 of those 28 never made it in for various reasons(one was baseball) or are no longer on the team, including some who have graduated or left early(Fairley).
So 15 players remain on the team from the 08/09 classes.
So the majority of the starters this year will be from the 10 and 11 classes with a few from the 08/09 and several freshmen and Rfreshmen.
And with the turnover in coordinators and bringing in new systems on top of how badly they played last year(while still winning 8 games), gives anyone outside the program reason to believe that there won't be huge improvement - i.e. the Vegas over/under on wins.
There's only one way to really find out though, and that starts this Saturday.
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