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Originally Posted by Redbird Attack
How much more talent can you possibly need when you return 95% of the Orange Bowl champions?
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We lost this "so called" 5% of our roster to the NFL.
DB Gay, DE Dumervil, OT Amobi, LB Harris, RB Kolby Smith
Obviously the 95% that came back COULDN'T play at that "Orange Bowl" level with out that 5% talent loss.
I would disagree with you anyway that 95% of the roster returned.
We had Brohm who did his best to carry the team but we had no defense.
We had Allen who was hurt most of the year and not a factor.
Bolen who is a hard runner but better as a compliment in a tandem backfield but not really a feature back.
Urrutia who had a shitty year.
Douglass who like Brohm did his best to carry the offensive load but couldn't win a shootout with just Brohm and Douglass with our defense.
At LB we had nothing, CB we were thin PLUS we lost coach Whitte who helped that position group tremendously. No real standouts on the D-line.
I do not agree that Petrino handed the keys to a shiny sports car to Coach Krag and he crashed.
He had several players w/ character (Williams, Spillman , Stripling) issues and had to deal with suspensions and injuries that depleated the talent pool.
We weren't good last year, I dont blame soley Kragthorpe.
Maybe theres a reason Petrinio left when he did.