.....Only saving grace is that the OL did improve as the season went on last year, but so will every other team we play too.
This is a big reason for my optimism this year on offense. OL development was dreadful under the cheerleader. Campbell and Manning took his guys, added Bobek, and had essentially spring and fall camp to unteach anything bad from the last 3-4 years/teach them how they wanted things done. Then they lost the only returning lineman with more than 1 career start at ISU for the season, and still turned them into a pretty damn serviceable unit by the middle of the season.
Now they will have had an entire extra year of a staff that has proven they can develop linemen; all the redshirt freshman have only ever been coached by this coaching and S&C staff. Campos returns and Good-Jones has an entire year of Big 12 experience. A line of Foster, Knipfel, Good-Jones, Oge, Campos would average 6-6, 306, and if Campos pursues a medical redshirt every one of them would be back for 2018. Garcia and Meeker have been talked up in spring ball and fill out the two deep with Windham, Kodanko, Curtis, and Mueller.
Defense up front may be another story, but our biggest question mark on offense is also the position group that made the most progress by far under this staff last year. Skill positions will go as far as the OL will let them, and an offense that stays on the field is a defensive lines best friend. Dammit, I'm out of kool-aid...