Phil Steele's early top 25

sanjosecrimson said:

Selma, they may return 8 starters on offense, but they lost 3 important starters that made that offense go ( Robinson, Mason, Prosch). Gus might be able to find adequate replacements for them, but IMO it won't be easy.

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Con said:

You are correct. I remember when S. Alexander and Samuels graduated and they were the leaders. The next year with almost everybody back except them, the wheels fell off.

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RollTide1224 said:

I've made this point several times about their team, maybe it is wishful thinking on my part but I do think that it will affect them. Mason seemed to never tire no matter the pace they played at and always fell forward, Robinson is obviously a top flight player, and you can tell from the coaches comments what they thought of Prosch.

When you get down to it their ground game was the absolute key to their success last year including most of the passing that Marshall got done. These three guys accounted for a gigantic part of the reason that their run game was so effective.

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selmaborntidefan said:

Auburn is returning fifteen starters, eight on offense. Their offense will be good. My suspicion is that their defense will continue to be mediocre and it will bite them in the behind a couple of times this year.

I think our folks need to accept this is probably - PROBABLY - our version of a rebuilding year. I hope not, but replacing McCarron is going to be incredibly difficult. We will likely lose a couple of games we should not, but it depends. After all - the last two first-year QBs we had both won national championships that first year.

I think we're top ten material but this is going to be a (by our standards) difficult year. We do not have the 2011 defense as far as we know.

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sanjosecrimson said:

Prosch never, and I mean never , missed his assignment!! some of his techniques were questionable , but the guy was a classic FB in every sense of the word.

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CrimsonForce said:

He was a great FB because that was all he was asked to do was block. I don't think I ever remember him carrying the ball or blocking.

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tusks_n_raider said:

This is exactly how I feel Selma and I have already braced for it. I think we will be about 9-3 in the regular season and then hopefully win the bowl game to finish 10-3 with about a Top 11-15 final ranking. #2 is waaaaaayyyy overrated. I won't even say who I think wins the west...I just can't...Let's just say I'll be rooting for LSU to do it instead if we can't.

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GrayTide said:

This will be CNS's toughest coaching year since 2010. Good talent all around but we still have IMO, the "all we have to do is show up" mindset which will cost us a few games. Sometimes maybe too much talent can hurt you? We shall see.

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