After he whiffs on his first tackle in the 1st quarter of the 1st game, that assessment will immediately change in the most extreme way possible, as follows:
1.There will be a "Chase Smith is not hurt" thread;
2. Various posters will proclaim the backups whom they've never seen play except a grainy HS recruiting video are better;
3. Even more posters will proclaim the freshmen LBs should be playing immediately;
4. Mario will be blamed for playing "favorites" like Manny;
5. Mario will be blamed for placing upper-classmen over under-classmen;
6. We'll get a thread asking why Mario didn't find a way to keep Charlie Strong on the staff, because the overwhelming consensus will be that Derek Nicholson sucks and can't coach and can only recruit;
7. We'll be wondering what Ryan Ragone is up to these days.
This'll be before the end of the first half of game 1.