PODCAST: Singin' the Bye Week Blues Ft. D$

PODCAST: Singin' the Bye Week Blues Ft. D$

Stefan Adams

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Regarding the OL "rebuild," Stefan was spot on. No such thing as quality veteran depth these days. Kids good enough to play will play or transfer. If Miami can't bring in talented linemen, coach them up, and get them ready to go from day 1, the OL will continue to be bad. Maybe not this bad... because this is really bad...but it will keep being bad.

There has been a direct correlation between the OL being bad and the program being bad for 15 years. This has been true whether the OL is young, veteran or even filled with future NFLers. I don't remember the last time I've been confident that the OL can get the push to convert on a 3rd and 1 against a halfway decent opponent.

That’s part of it, but what I was also trying to get at is that some of the backups are older than the starters, so just from that point of view they may end up leaving as well, regardless of talent level.

Either way, you’d think the backup OL would be chomping at the bit for playing time and working their *** off seeing how nobody’s on the starting OL should feel safe in their job at this point. But that’s just me
 
People talk about that struggle of recruiting OL and keeping them long enough so they can develop, but teams like BC and Wisconsin do it all the time, and you don't need to go the the Midwest to find kids like that around the country. That being said, UM will never be able to recruit OL at an elite level, but if they can recruit some of these underrated prospects like Wisky and BC do, then sprinkle a couple of elite OL propects a year UM can build a pretty solid OL. For this recruiting class UM already as Jalen Rivers, and elite prospect, and 2 development guys, Antonio Smith and Chris Washington. To be real UM is going to have to recruit another Elite OT for this OL class to be good, and while they are at it They should try to get another OT from the portal or grad transfer that can immediately come in and contribute.
 
Seantrel was the most highly touted OL prospect that I can remember. So we can get guys like that.
 
Every few years SoFL has about 4 or 5 Miami caliber OL, and then the next year 2, and then maybe 2 more, then back to 5. We gotta hit on those kids, and land 3* & 4*s from GA, NC, SC, NJ, VA etc. Its not a lack of OL in SoFL, its a lack of producing wins, decent OL units, and draft picks... even 3rd rounders. I mean come on, Darling & McDermott werent drafted, they had that kind of talent.
 
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