GT 2016 Roster and Spring Depth Chart

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flea77 said:
Freddie is recovering from surgery. Marshall will be the center. Griffin is moving to guard.
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I am glad to hear this about Griffin. I really wanted Will to stay at OT. I guess this means he will be. He just runs so well. We need that at the OT spot. A second year without a job change should do him wonders.
 
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All spring practices are interesting, but this one seems even more so to me. Maybe it is because we are coming off such a bad season. Many are coming back off injury, RS, transfer, or early enroll. We will look a lot different, that is for sure.
 

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I am glad to hear this about Griffin. I really wanted Will to stay at OT. I guess this means he will be. He just runs so well. We need that at the OT spot. A second year without a job change should do him wonders.
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Glad to hear you like the move, since you watch a lot more film than me. Seems like we're thin at guard long-term and guard is a more important position than tackle. Why not keep chris griffin in his natural position and bump Will to LG as Shamire's eventual replacement (thoughts from a casual fan. I obviously differ to the coach's wisdom on this). What's the 2nd string line look like? I'm guessing Froyman or little Braun will have to play guard?
 
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I wouldn't count on these positions sticking by fall. A lot of players probably won't be playing.
 
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AE 87 said:
If you copy the table into Excel, then you can copy it from Excel as a picture. If you paste the picture into another word file, you can then copy and paste it directly into a swarm post.

There might be ways to skip a step, but that works. As it stands, I eventually got to my computer and saw your work, but having the table in the post makes it easier to see on my phone.
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RLR said:
Glad to hear you like the move, since you watch a lot more film than me. Seems like we're thin at guard long-term and guard is a more important position than tackle. Why not keep chris griffin in his natural position and bump Will to LG as Shamire's eventual replacement (thoughts from a casual fan. I obviously differ to the coach's wisdom on this). What's the 2nd string line look like? I'm guessing Froyman or little Braun will have to play guard?
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OT might be Griffin's "natural" position if we were a different offense. If I were to bet, Bryan would dust Griffin in a foot race. That is the biggest reason. Although I haven't seen him person, pictures appear to indicate that Griffin's body has changed over the RS season. He might have added 20 lbs to his once, more lanky frame. He has a chance to be more physical than Bryan. We need quicks in there at OG, but we also need power.
 
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Young D. Out of the starting 11 listed above, we have two 5th yr players (Gamble and Rook) and three 4th yr players (Keshun, PJ and Corey Griffin). That's it, 5 upperclassmen and one has barely played.

Another way to look at it. If you give the D a value based on the sum of each player's year in program where the max for the starting 11 would be 55, we come in at 36. And that's just years in program and not years as a starter or even years as a significant contributor. Those number are way lower.

Like I said earlier, it's gonna take a phenomenal coaching job just to be mediocre on D this year. If the injury bug strikes some of our key guys.... I don't even want to think about it.
 
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You will never hear me argue against the value of experience. However, with that said, losing starters, even long term ones, is not always bad. By that strict logic alone, every team would get worse every year unless they were starting all underclassmen. We all know from watching sports for years, that isn't always true.

It should be interesting to watch. It is hard to imagine getting better at CB, but I hear some of these new guys are pretty good. We might get better at Safety, or at least more physical and athletic. For all his brilliant film study and game preparation, Golden was pretty average in terms of speed and physicality. His biggest strength by far was what was going on between his ears. We might be better at LB with guys more experienced. It is hard to imagine improving at the big Aussie's spot, but everywhere else we sure could along the D-Line.

I will want to see the new guys play before drawing conclusions about how good a coaching job it will take. We need good coaching either way, but we might not need miracles after all.
 
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Yeah, I'm with @Boomergump on this one @dressedcheeseside. I think you need to do some more work by showing correlation.

Also, typically, upperclassmen are Juniors and Seniors, not just Seniors. So, if you look at guys entering their 3rd year in the program, or in college football for transfers, our numbers go up. We'll see.
 
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I agree that experience doesn't always = better team. I think a lot of the guys who were upperclassman weren't as talented as some of our younger guys now. They played because they had been around a while, but sometimes there's addition by subtraction.

Our DL had several upperclassmen on it for a while and we all know how that was going. Outside of Gotsis, (freeman sometimes) no one was making an impact. Just because they are older doesn't mean they are better. You still have to have some raw talent/ability.
 
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