enjoying some success on the gridiron.
I still hold to my somewhat irrational view that this group of young Deacons will win another ACC Championship.
The season is far from over but looking ahead, and considering how the program and players evolve within, it holds a tremendous amount of promise going forward.
The incorporation of several elements... Lobo, love him or hate him, gets a 1/2 season under his belt working with Coach Galloway. Our 2 headed DC gets a year wiser after a solid rookie campaign from Knorr/Billings.
Our 19 year old QB becomes 20 and the outlandish claims of his ending up being a better ballplayer than Riley Skinner no longer seem outrageous. He will end up being the greatest QB to ever play at WF. I know of Norm Snead. I'll stick to it and bear up the slings and arrows headed at me.
Our JR to be SR wideout is, as it turns out, not far from Jeremy Maclin and I stick to the earlier pronouncement that he will be the finest WR to ever play at Wake --- at least until Sherman Ragland gets his day in the sun, and he will brother, he will!
The evolving offense and incorporation of talents (chemistry) went quite well this season...despite the loss of the player who team members thought would be the offensive leader (Harris based on Spring and Fall performance) the Deacs saw integration of Galloway's new techniques and several offensive players (Campanaro, Terrence, Chris, and Orville)
Areas for concern? As always the Offensive Line --
Same as it ever was...the difference in 2012 is that the Deacs have lots of capable bodies and a couple of kids (maybe 3-4 actually) who have All-ACC and possibly All-American ability. Pass blocking will be a pre-season challenge but the Deacs begin with a surprising kid in the middle in the 6'4-317 pound SR Center Garrick Williams. The Deacons have at their command a group of OL with more run blocking potential than the heady group of Collins,Azzolina,Moosebrugger. Colin Summers is a giant as is Cody Preble and those 2 are serious drive blockers and guys who'd look at home in the SEC. Hunter Goodwin and Intemann/Heartsill also have very large power bases. Blitch is an aggressive big man who has more legs than Weaver. Antonio Ford has an ass and build like the uglies Nick Saban lines up and Chase-Bolling are in their JR seasons which is when the staff anticipated their ramped up participation (as recruits). Young, yet much more physically advanced than the OL's we've seen pre-2011.That and temperment...only a couple that yoiu have to coax the 'nasty' out of.
TE is a question mark....I will say that I've not given up on Garcia/Basford but the new kid Zach is an "out of the box" recruit for WF. He is the type of big, strong and polished TE you see year in and out at Notre Dame. Anthony Rook is a big bodied kid with soft hands who can run and looks a little like Alge Crumpler.
Talk D later...
I still hold to my somewhat irrational view that this group of young Deacons will win another ACC Championship.
The season is far from over but looking ahead, and considering how the program and players evolve within, it holds a tremendous amount of promise going forward.
The incorporation of several elements... Lobo, love him or hate him, gets a 1/2 season under his belt working with Coach Galloway. Our 2 headed DC gets a year wiser after a solid rookie campaign from Knorr/Billings.
Our 19 year old QB becomes 20 and the outlandish claims of his ending up being a better ballplayer than Riley Skinner no longer seem outrageous. He will end up being the greatest QB to ever play at WF. I know of Norm Snead. I'll stick to it and bear up the slings and arrows headed at me.
Our JR to be SR wideout is, as it turns out, not far from Jeremy Maclin and I stick to the earlier pronouncement that he will be the finest WR to ever play at Wake --- at least until Sherman Ragland gets his day in the sun, and he will brother, he will!
The evolving offense and incorporation of talents (chemistry) went quite well this season...despite the loss of the player who team members thought would be the offensive leader (Harris based on Spring and Fall performance) the Deacs saw integration of Galloway's new techniques and several offensive players (Campanaro, Terrence, Chris, and Orville)
Areas for concern? As always the Offensive Line --
Same as it ever was...the difference in 2012 is that the Deacs have lots of capable bodies and a couple of kids (maybe 3-4 actually) who have All-ACC and possibly All-American ability. Pass blocking will be a pre-season challenge but the Deacs begin with a surprising kid in the middle in the 6'4-317 pound SR Center Garrick Williams. The Deacons have at their command a group of OL with more run blocking potential than the heady group of Collins,Azzolina,Moosebrugger. Colin Summers is a giant as is Cody Preble and those 2 are serious drive blockers and guys who'd look at home in the SEC. Hunter Goodwin and Intemann/Heartsill also have very large power bases. Blitch is an aggressive big man who has more legs than Weaver. Antonio Ford has an ass and build like the uglies Nick Saban lines up and Chase-Bolling are in their JR seasons which is when the staff anticipated their ramped up participation (as recruits). Young, yet much more physically advanced than the OL's we've seen pre-2011.That and temperment...only a couple that yoiu have to coax the 'nasty' out of.
TE is a question mark....I will say that I've not given up on Garcia/Basford but the new kid Zach is an "out of the box" recruit for WF. He is the type of big, strong and polished TE you see year in and out at Notre Dame. Anthony Rook is a big bodied kid with soft hands who can run and looks a little like Alge Crumpler.
Talk D later...
