BGDrew wrote:Santonio-Gone
Hawk-Gone
Schlegel-Gone
Carpenter-Gone
You don't lose that much talent and not have drop off. Ginn will start out slow again, they will lose to Texas and lose against Michigan thus knocking them out of a BCS game.
are you kidding me? They have 4 defensive recruits who have been at OSU in classes already. That means, they are participating in spring drills. Which means they will probably start or atleast be in the two deep.
The linebacker from cali was a Juco, he is a starter, right now, and has been compared to AJ and it has been said my even be better than AJ was at this point in his career.
WR, Ginn Will not start slow again. LAst year was his first as a starting WR. he had NEVER played the postion before. He started getting it, towards the end. The muffed kick returns are fixable with a little coaching. thats in his head. he is ready to go. They also have gonzalez. There will be another WR who will step up.
They will have an IMPROVED running game whit chris wells (also already in school at OSU and participating this spring.
Also on Defense there is this kid named Jamario O'neal. heard of him? just wait, you will. He is going to be an all world DB and Ginn can play both ways if needed.
Everybody thinks it is going to be so hard to replace hawk carpenter and schlegel. fact is, they already have. The recruiting class was full of LB studs it is not even funny.
The Defense is going to be just as good if not better than last year.
With the offense, they wont have to be that good, but they will be.
Lets not forget, Troy Smith is the garunteed no doubt starter this year. That also contributed to Ginn's troubles last year to start. he didnt know who was going to throw to him and when. zwick and Smith had different styles and there were adjustments to be made depending on who was out there. that hurt him to start.
Get real Michigan? OSU will not be losing to them for a while. Henne is horrible. Hart sucks against OSU always, and didnt they lose their WR's and some significant Defensive players? Oh and they didnt have the best recrutiing class either. They are slipping and will continue to do so until they get rid of carr.
No rebuilding, just reloading.
might as well learn to deal with it.
Texas will have some QB troubles. wont lose to them..not this year.
Texas will not be that good they will lose atleast 2 games.