The fact that their redshurting Hamilton and Moore means they see something in those two and their staying. Moore actually logged a lot of time in the spring. I'm not giving up on jelani yet, he has some skills that can be used as a strong end or Olsen Pierre's role, at worse he is a rotation guy. Seems like a kid that is just not a practice player. Moore has limitations as a nose tackle but he has experience and has logged minutes there for us so red shirting and having next year along with Wyche, heurtolu ain't bad cause at worse it allows is to redshirt an incoming freshman dt
Actually that is not definitive. It
COULD be a reason but that doesn't mean it is the reason.
The issue is logic would dictate the opposite (i.e. the players are not good). Freshman aren't supposed to be expected to come in and play DT (sure some do). Jenkins and Moton are freshman and they're playing as true freshman. Moore and Hamilton are in their 3rd years, neither is on a medical redshirt and both can technically play. Logic would dictate that you would redshirt the younger kids and play the older ones. The younger kids tend not to be ready (understand the system and physically in shape) and are better candidates to redshirt. Not only did Jenkins and Moton play over Hamilton and Moore, Wyche who is in terrible shape was playing over them as well.
The other issue is how much credibility does Al get in the DT department (at judging talent). Here are some of the DTs he has brought into the program (first 3 years):
2011: Corey King, Darius Smith and Olsen Pierre
2012: Jacoby Briscoe, Dequan Ivery, Jelani Hamilton and Earl Moore
2013: Ufomba Kamalu
25% have left the program without doing anything (Briscoe and Ivery)
50% have done nothing or were JAGs (King, Smith, Hamilton and Moore)
25% are quality or have potential (Kamalu and Pierre)
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25% is not very credible. I don't give this man a lot of credit at UM due to his numbers above.
The 2014 class has already passed up King, Hamilton and Moore. IMO, they all got to go.