Signing Day
Compared to recent years, National Signing Day '09 has been ... less than riveting.
But surprisingly, I'm not too worried. Oh, it makes the class of '10 that much more critical to load up at just about every position. But I have confidence that Dabo, Billy and co. can handle it. 2008 was just a big bump in the road set about by mitigating circumstances. Losing your coach, having a disappointing regular season, and getting destroyed by Alabama will do that to you.
But I like the few that we have. Tahj Boyd will have some ACL rehab ahead of him, but I look for him to be right in the mix with Willy Korn and Kyle Parker.
Roderick McDowell is short but very, very fast and flashy, kind of like Andre Ellington last year. With C.J. Spiller back for his senior year and Jamie Harper and Ellington behind him, it will be interesting to see whether Roddy can break into the rotation or wait for '10.
We piled on linebackers this year with Spencer Shuey, Corico Hawkins, and Quandon Christian. Which is good; we need a boost in talent in that area.
It sucks to lose promising safeties like Craig Loston (but he was never gonna get pried loose from the Longhorn state) and Devonte Holloman (this stings more because he chose the Gamecocks, along with Leon Mackey), but we've got a good one in Jonathan Meeks.
Tyler Shatley and Chad Diehl in the mix as fullbacks could be fun to watch.
But that's about it in Tigertown. The only other news? Oh yeah, there's that basketball game on primetime this evening, nationally televised on ESPN. It's against ... who is it? Oh, right. Duke.
Sigh. Play hard, Tigers...
But surprisingly, I'm not too worried. Oh, it makes the class of '10 that much more critical to load up at just about every position. But I have confidence that Dabo, Billy and co. can handle it. 2008 was just a big bump in the road set about by mitigating circumstances. Losing your coach, having a disappointing regular season, and getting destroyed by Alabama will do that to you.
But I like the few that we have. Tahj Boyd will have some ACL rehab ahead of him, but I look for him to be right in the mix with Willy Korn and Kyle Parker.
Roderick McDowell is short but very, very fast and flashy, kind of like Andre Ellington last year. With C.J. Spiller back for his senior year and Jamie Harper and Ellington behind him, it will be interesting to see whether Roddy can break into the rotation or wait for '10.
We piled on linebackers this year with Spencer Shuey, Corico Hawkins, and Quandon Christian. Which is good; we need a boost in talent in that area.
It sucks to lose promising safeties like Craig Loston (but he was never gonna get pried loose from the Longhorn state) and Devonte Holloman (this stings more because he chose the Gamecocks, along with Leon Mackey), but we've got a good one in Jonathan Meeks.
Tyler Shatley and Chad Diehl in the mix as fullbacks could be fun to watch.
But that's about it in Tigertown. The only other news? Oh yeah, there's that basketball game on primetime this evening, nationally televised on ESPN. It's against ... who is it? Oh, right. Duke.
Sigh. Play hard, Tigers...
posted by david @ 10:38 AM
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