Rantoul2012 XXIV: Mailbag Day August 9, 2012
Today is my final day at Camp Rantoul (*tears*). It’s also Mailbag Day. Email your questions to Robert@alioneye.com.
If you email me before 9:00 this morning, I can be your eyes and ears at practice today. Want to know something about a specific player or coach? Shoot me an email this morning and I’ll watch for it at practice today.
And even if you don’t see this until the afternoon and you want to ask something about a player or coach, shoot me an email. Send me 10 questions if you want. I’ll pick out as many questions as I can and put together several mailbag posts over the next few days.
And I probably should reiterate – I won’t share anything about schemes or personnel groupings or anything like that. We wouldn’t want #1 ALionEye fan Pat Fitzgerald to gain an advantage, now would we? So keep your questions non-specific when it comes to schemes. I’ll give you my thoughts on the offense or the defense, but I won’t tell you about the receiver formations.
And, OK, I do get emails on my phone, so if you email before, say, 10:30 or so, I can probably still find you an answer. And if you act in the next 10 minutes, I’ll include a fourth mailbag post ABSOLUTELY FREE.
I think I’ll just post my question here. Looking at DE, I feel good about where we are this year with Buchanan at Leo and Staples/Kynard forming a nice platoon at the other spot. Then next year we’ll assume Caldwell is the successor next year at Leo and starts for 3 years. But my question is, who is going to start opposite? Kenny Nelson? DJ Woods? And do we have any depth? This to me seems like a big need still to be addressed in recruiting, with Smoot being the only true DE we have signed right now (Clements already is 270 lbs.)