I'm not saying It's a done deal, but Baker essentially will have to fight Womack for the starting RT in the fall camp.
I hate to be negative, but this doesn't seem like good news to me. You never know, but I struggle to believe that Womack is the best option that you have at RT. Frankly, if he is, it suggests weakness in the others more than anything else to me.
Bothersome, given the problems with the right side OL last season...
Well, now that Brent Key took over the OL as a whole, we should at least see improvement across the OL.
Could be, although Bozeman was a 3 star in some services and he's turned out pretty darn good. On the lines especially some kids come along a bit later in life as they grow into their size. Hopefully that's the case with Womack
Well I've thought since day one that Baker was undersized to play in the SEC. He has only being playing football for a few years I believe as well. Nonetheless he and Leatherwood were ranked at the top of their positions coming out and Womack is apparently outplaying both of them. Just because he was a 3 star doesn't mean now going on 3 years into our program that he can't be the best option.
I hopeful that Womac might just be a late bloomer. There is so much talent on campus the last decade that it is easy to forget that sometimes players need to mature physically so their bodies can catch up to their work ethic.
Heck, he's only a redshirt sophomore, so he's not really a late bloomer, either.
And your reasoning is what? Because of his 3* rating and #621 24/7 ranking? Been quite a few 3*'s that were really good players. Chance Warmack, Mark Ingram, Demeco Ryans to name a few. He was committed to LSWho before we flipped him. Don't really understand the reasoning for your statement B1G.
You bring up one good point with 'crootin: the offer list says a lot about a player...usually. If he was committed to LSU and flipped to Alabama, he was probably one of the best at his position coming out of high school. LSU and Alabama don't offer stiffs.
No, because he has come out of nowhere after being a part of your program for 2 years. When this happens it usually means one of 2 things - he had some serious studs ahead of him, or he just wasn't performing well enough in practice to see the field. You have struggled at RG for 2 years in a row. Did he never get a shot at RG? Maybe that is the problem. Maybe he can only play tackle, and you have had very good tackles.
Leatherwood was with the second string today, so he appears to be making his move.
Yeah, I'm not even sure that I agree with myself. I am just very surprised.
This reasoning is weird and I totally disagree with the whole assessment. We spent all year hearing how being a true freshman absolutely meant not being expected to play at the level of a more experienced player, and now your comment makes it seem like a guy who is a not world beater in his first or second year is somehow past his opportunity. This is crazy. Especially at a lineman position it takes years to reach your potential. I know we started some young guys but we also have guys like Ryan Kelly who showed up in sophomore year when the starter went down, and he turned out okay. We rotate dline so you get to see more of the three deep in action, but even there we have 5 star guys who don't peak until they are juniors or seniors. On the online it is very common to play two years as an upperclassman because it take those extra two years of weight lifting and growing to attain the physical traits necessary to hold up in the trenches. Also womack is the same years out of high school as a juco, except he qualified for college in the first place. If he had failed to qualify and then been the top juco player would you be like oh he's great he's supposed to win the job blah blah blah.
Well, it wasn't really an assessment as much as a train of thought, but I get your point.
We sometimes forget that in a day and age with great player development in high schools today that just a few years ago a player would get to campus and we'd never hear his name until at least his Soph. or Jr. year.
