re: Potential offensive line coach candidates- UPDATE : Jack Bicknell Jr. Hired

Chad and Fry both routinely said they wanted the OL to be around 270-280. There’s a pic floating around somewhere that shows our OL at the beginning of the year compared to LSU. It’s almost comical how small our guys look at that weight compared to the LSU OL.

I will say that, with what he had to work with, our OL did improve this year. It wasn’t SEC caliber by any means but he did a good job of starting to fix the mess the previous OL coach created. I don’t think he’d be near as bad as some of our fans will tell you he will be. He’ll have better players to work with for one and I doubt Gus is going to let 280 lb OL fly in his system.

Now one issue I would have with him is the snap he had our center doing. It was this odd floating snap that took forever to get back and every crew that called our games pointed out. That may have been an issue with our center but hopefully he doesn’t carry it over to you guys. It was beyond awful to watch.