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I don’t remember tbh. Still, not counting Grace, there were 7 other linebackers on the roster who had been in school longer than the freshman trio who could have played but didn’t. None of which were particularly good players.

Robert Bass was a fifth year senior who started the first two games of the 1993 season at MLB. He tore his MCL against Virginia Tech in week 2 and Ray Lewis took over.

Grace got in trouble with that rental car situation or he would have started. There were other, older linebackers on the roster (mostly jags and Golden throw away recruits) who could have played but Manny started three freshmen.

We had older guys on the roster available but they weren’t any good. Terry McCray, Darrion Owens, Charles Perry and Mike Smith were all scholarship sophomores or juniors but thankfully they didn’t play them much.

I find it comical that people think there’s some steadfast rule against playing younger linebackers when Manny Diaz started three freshmen linebackers his first year here. Granted, one of those spots should have been Jermaine Grace but he was still going with two other freshmen.