Why complain about it or look for people to blame that they are starting or playing significant minutes? Many of us on here have been screaming for YEARS, play the youngsters. Your BEST recruiting tool is rolling out game film and showing a pending recruit ALL the freshman who have either started or played valuable minutes during the season. It allows a recruit to "see themselves in that frosh shoes". it also cuts down on attrition/transfer rates, because all those frosh and youngsters have to lift, attend film study, practice and put their minds and body through the same torture as a starter, except they KNOW they WILL NOT play. No matter how hard they work they won't play. That's extremely frustrating for a kid. If he bust his ass in practice and film room why not let him get on the field. It was my biggest pet peeve against J. Shipp, our interior DL would be getting molested for chunks of yards yet he would keep those upperclassmen on the field because they knew where to line up. Who gives a shite if they cannot make a play? Last night when watching all those linemen playing I immediately thought about FSU's line in 2012 when we went to Tally to play them. They had 2 or 3 frosh starting and we brutalized them most of the night, but that baby line became grown ass men in 2013.
Just don't understand how playing a youngsters has to be an indictment on a player or coach. Kejuan Jones was a good player, the fact that AD took over wasn't an indictment on Jones, it spoke to the type of player that was recruited after Jones showed up on campus. There are growing pains with playing youngsters, but if it means next year and the following year we have championship talent at OL, DL and Secondary then let'em play and take their lumps.
Just don't understand how playing a youngsters has to be an indictment on a player or coach. Kejuan Jones was a good player, the fact that AD took over wasn't an indictment on Jones, it spoke to the type of player that was recruited after Jones showed up on campus. There are growing pains with playing youngsters, but if it means next year and the following year we have championship talent at OL, DL and Secondary then let'em play and take their lumps.
