re: How much do you think your team has progressed or regressed since last season?

Well, we can only go up.

In all seriousness, I think you'll see marked improvement on offense. Largely because we have our full stable of backs healthy, our QBs healthy (we ran with our 3rd and 4th stringers most of last season), and they looked pretty good adapting to the spread. I'm most excited about Josh Clemons return at RB because he showed a lot of promise his freshman season before going down. At first glance I don't know how much improvement there will be on defense, but we started one of the youngest squads in the country on that side of the ball last season and all of those guys have a SEC season under their belt. Stoops runs a different scheme so they'll be adjusting to that and it'll take longer for that then the offense adjusting to the spread. But there's some talent there, especially on that line with the addition of guys like Za'darius Smith.

I don't expect a whole lot of improvement in the W/L column, but I think you'll start to see the foundation of a solid squad in the next few seasons just in guys picking up schemes, improving technique, and etc. It just might not show until later in the season and we start our SEC slate with Florida, @ USCe, and Alabama right off the bat.