Young Team

[SueVide]

I keep hearing everyone say we have a young team. We have some new players stepping into starting roles but are we really that young if many of our players starting on offense and defense are in year 3? 

[TexasLonghorns]

That whole “we’re young” narrative only popped up after the results didn’t meet preseason expectations. Nobody was calling this offense young in August, if someone had suggested we’d struggle because of youth, they’d have been laughed off the board. In fact, we were going to be better offensively because the players being inserted brought more physicality up front from G,C,G, Arch was more dynamic than Ewers, Wingo was the best freshman WR in the country just didn’t get much opportunity and Endries was a plug and play vet that would have a huge impact, etc. 

Offensive starters:

QB – 3rd yr

RBs – Baxter (3rd), Wisner (3rd), Clark (2nd)

WRs – Moore (3rd), Wingo (2nd), Livingstone (2nd)

OL – LT (2nd), LG (3rd), C (4th), RG (4th), RT (2nd)

TEs – Endries (3rd), Washington (2nd)

That’s 2 fourth-years, 5 third-years, and 4 second year players. Far from young. 

[DanielOnorato]

Goosby is in his third year in the program.

[TexasLonghorns]

3 minutes ago, DanielOnorato said:

Goosby is in his third year in the program.

Good catch, won’t let me edit. 

[drag worm]

We just got our ass kicked by a true freshman receiver. 

[ArizonaLonghorn]

19 minutes ago, TexasLonghorns said:

Wingo was the best freshman WR in the country

This is absurd, even delusional.  Jeremiah Smith and Ryan Williams were light years better by any metric.

[LonghornFan4Ever]

2 minutes ago, ArizonaLonghorn said:

This is absurd, even delusional.  Jeremiah Smith and Ryan Williams were light years better by any metric.

I assume that was sarcasm regarding how good Wingo was.

[TexasLonghorns]

2 minutes ago, ArizonaLonghorn said:

This is absurd, even delusional.  Jeremiah Smith and Ryan Williams were light years better by any metric.

 

 

[LonghornFan4Ever]

3 minutes ago, drag worm said:

We just got our ass kicked by a true freshman receiver. 

There’s no “circle of trust” in Gainesville that’s for sure

[ArizonaLonghorn]

8 minutes ago, drag worm said:

We just got our ass kicked by a true freshman receiver. 

At one point during the game I started to wonder "why do our highly rated freshman WRs like Ffrench and Lockett (ranked # 9 and # 2 in the class) sit because they haven't learned our system while Wilson (# 😎 is playing like an All-Conference dude in his first game?"   (edit: for some reason trying to type hashtag 8 in ( ) brings up the sunny emoji - lol)

Maybe our system is too complicated?

Edited 1 hour ago by ArizonaLonghorn

[ArizonaLonghorn]

2 minutes ago, LonghornFan4Ever said:

I assume that was sarcasm regarding how good Wingo was.

If true I apologize for missing the sarcasm, but the other points he makes about our IOL, Arch and Endries were all pretty much what every one seemed to expect ...