re: Why should chizik get another year?

If we end up with 3 wins, I think it would be very hard for him to keep his job. At this point 6 wins and a lot of improvement as the year goes along would help him keep his job. Then next year he'd probably have to win 10. We'll return the majority of the 2 deep on both sides of the ball for the second year in a row and his first good recruiting class(10) will be in it's fourth year. With the amount of quality, experienced depth we'll have next year, there should be no reason we shouldn't compete for the west. If we're not in the running, I don't think Chizik should stay.

As for the OL being young, they are. That's really the only position on the field, other than QB I guess, that we can claim is young. We have sophomores scattered around, but right now at OL we are left to right - Rfr, Sr, Soph, Rsoph, Fr and the Sr is only out there because of his experience. He's not a great linemen and he may get passed up by the time the year's done. The backups left to right are Rfr, Rfr, Rsoph, Fr, Fr, so we're looking at one upperclassmen and 3 true freshmen and 3 Rfr on the two deep. And the rest are either Fr or Rfr after that. You can't argue that's really young.

The rest of the team on the other hand has enough experience and age that they should be playing better than they are, there's no doubt about that.