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You have to be an idiot to think that Butters fate was determined by the credit card suspensions. he'll Davis was better than Scarlett and wouldn't even have been on the field had Scarlet not been suspended. Our great coaches assessed him as the 5th best on the team and had him destined for a redshirt. The passing game was terrible not because of the lack of one 5 touchdown per year wide receiver. The problem was the offensive line looking like a pathetic West Texas OL for the third year and the quarterback being told to throw nothing but screen passes and crossing patterns in an almost 100% predictable manner.
Of course some people somehow saw Improvement every year and expected an offensive explosion because Pat Drooley told them so.
I think Jordan Smith’s absence was the most noticeable. We needed more 225lb, mid level Defensive Ends and they just don’t grow on trees.
The other young ones may not have started. But they could’ve played STs under Nord and gained invaluable lessons on overrunning plays and blocking in the back.
And you have to wonder if Telfort had simply financed his own strict regimen of pizza, soda, Funyuns, and sour gummy worms, rather than racking up 30+ felony charges by stealing someone’s credit identity to avoid paying the $89 and having it delivered to him, was he burgeoning into the next star O-Lineman. The commitment, work ethic and smarts demonstrated just scream yes.
Call me crazy, but the Byrd is starting to win me over.