Spring football video: Ryan Clanton's update on the offensive line
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My annual spring football offensive line post:
Clanton is the right guy for the job.
You can sense he walks the right line balance of being a teacher, and chewing some ass. Doesn't hurt that he did it at a high level at Oregon on OL.
I believe they’re preparing for the Princeton transfer to be LT when he gets here this summer.
I'm not convinced Neal is going to play guard. Probably just trying it on for size. That said I wish Maro or someone else would step up to be another dependable tackle.
If you listen to his cyclones.com interview (different from this one), he just says he has practiced on both sides of the ball.
I'm sure this guy is a great coach...but we've all heard this rah rah fired up stuff before and then the season comes and it's still the weak spot. I'll believe it when we start seeing it on the field.
I listened to Clanton during half-time of the UConn game. And he did mention that Neal is playing both guard & tackle. Felt like it was spring experimenting. But Clanton did say Neal has NFL potential at guard or tackle and I know the NFL folks love backup OL who can play both guard & tackle.
IMHO, it might be that Neal at OG is an experiment, a tactic that all OL have crosstraining.
How could they really know how the Princeton guy fits in until he gets here? Scouting, sure, but is that an absolute determination?
Train 'em all for multiple positions. I get it that Princeton OT size-wise seems to fit OT, but it is not yet proven. We will see.
Myself, I believe we will see it on the field. Still, it's hard to believe until it's proven. I agree.
Well, I think we did start to see it in pass protection last season, so that's better than nothing. Don't think it's fair to assume failures of past coaches will continue just because we're ISU.
I'm not saying we should expect to see a Bama caliber o-line out there, but I'm choosing to be cautiously optimistic and hoping for more improvement out of that unit.
I laughed at Clanton's comments about how guys who also played basketball in high school were coached not to foul the opponent, while he's trying to teach them to foul the heck out of the opponent. 
Set the bowl game aside, and the OL massively improved over the course of the season. The pass pro was pretty good from the get go.
I don't know if it's going to be a strength this year, but it's hard to deny that the line play got a lot better.
James Neal in particular made insane growth from Ohio to KSU.
I don't know if it's going to be a strength this year, but it's hard to deny that the line play got a lot better.
James Neal in particular made insane growth from Ohio to KSU.
