Optimism for last years' redshirts

[KMAC_ATTACK]

I think both Osemele and Baysinger will push to take over some minutes immediately. Also don't be so quick to call Wallace Franklin a bust. My brother talked to Wayne Bolt a couple weeks ago and Bolt said Franklin provided the defense with the most problems in practice.

AMEN BROTHER.....

I've been preaching about Baysinger since we signed him....anybody remember the great Dallas Cowboys teams of the 90's well if this guy isnt a prototype Erik Williams i don't know what one would look like...hope he has that nasty side that you need to hand out the A** whoppins instead of takin them....

I was one of those huge Wallace Franklin supporters when we signed him and then he was a bust. Well, i'm looking at it from a different perspective...Last year our entire offense was learning the system, the reads routes etc....So our Jucos coming in had to learn just like everyone else - factor there being that when a system is in place and practice is going on, players can talk and help each other understand the system, last year, everyone was learning together so it slows down the process of communication and execution.

Now that said, i hope Franklin comes in at about 185-190 and still has the blazing speed, he's got speed, its durability i'm worried about. And now with us losing Graham, Franklin may be a bigger role. And from one of Clones33's post from last season, he indicated that Franklin and Arnaud are friends, I think that you will see a bunch more over the top throws this year with Arnaud. His delivery seems so much more effortless then did Meyer (and i'm not hatin on meyer) i just think Arnaud has a much more lively arm. I think of the K-state game and he threw that deep in to Blythe, that was a big time throw, accurate, 40+ yards on a line, that really shows the arm strength that was lacking in the passing game. We cannot afford to throw the rainbow 40 yard pass plays in our conference, those are either picked off or batted down by the safety.

I'm excited to see big Trey in pads and crackin some skulls, he will be a bookend tackle for the next 4 years.

We need Bo.............

[flander1649]

I think it will be really interesting to see how much more the OL can develop this year. There are going to be some flat out battles for starting spots next year between Lamaak, Blaes, Schemling, Baysinger, Osemele, Stephens, Johnson, Dedrick, and Alvarez. This is going to be a very deep line and the year Stephens is a senior that might be the best OL that ISU has ever had. These guys will work their tails off and make each other better. It is going to be exciting to see who comes out on top.