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Originally Posted by jwinslow
You can't really use Tank to support your argument, he supports the other side of the debate if you ask me. He's a walkon turned scholarship player by hard-nosed play & tremendous work ethic... not on Zach Boren's level as a prospect. When Tank was not blocking last fall, the FB play was average at best, imo... at least for the first 10 games or so.
Pepper Johnson arrived with tremendous pedigree (former OSU great and NFL starting LB) & was even awarded the honor of captain, yet was not as effective as the strangely proportioned 'tank' if you ask me.
You're ignoring the larger point, which is more than just one isolated case of hawk-andrea... some of OSU's best players were complete nobodies in terms of recruiting visibility (Laurinaitis, Robiskie, Washington, Russell). Heck even Gholston was thought to be too much of a project by UM. |
Those players werent respected by recruiting services... but if u watched them you saw skills.. you saw projectability.. you saw elements of talent that could be developed..
I dont see that in Boren on the defensive side of the ball.. Im not gonna continue to go on about it cause i dont want to knock the kid, cause he's a fine player for Pick Central. But at his height and his size, he cant even project at the next level defensively IMO...
Will be be a 6'1 defensive end? Will he be a 250 pound LB? I just dont see skills that you can project at the next level, outside of strength, determination, and straight line quickness..
Would that make a heckuva FB.. yea it would granted he knows how to play FB..
My point isnt that he wont be a great FB.. it's that why are we recruiting three FBs in the last two classes, when those roster spots could be filled with better players who project at more important positions