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(01-01-2022 03:42 PM)Cat-Man Wrote:  I think people are underestimating the effect that losing 30+ seniors will have. It's going to sting.

The underclassmen they are going to lose (Sauce and Ford) may hurt even more.

People who are wanting to open up the offense a little more should temper their expectations. Especially if Prater is the guy. He was a highly ranked recruit because he was an athlete. ie. He is a runner, not a passer.

Next year is definitely going to be a down year but I think we'll still be pretty good. Our defense is definitely going to be worse and losing Ford will be big for our offense. It was a noticeable difference when he was running and anyone else we had. We're losing a lot of weapons on offense but I think Prater brings a different dynamic to the offense so it will be interesting to see if we create an offense to his strengths.

Prater is definitely better with his legs than Ridder and I think eventually will be at least as accurate. Ridder got a lot of props for having having high win % but anyone who watched the games knows it was rarely him putting in a herculean effort and usually it was the entire team, defense, or run game carrying.

If Prater can't top 62% pass percentage (Ridders career average and only was 65% this year) we are going to be in some deep trouble. That's not an impressive % at any level and the only people who ever clamored about Ridders accuracy were announcers who had seem maybe 2 UC games in a year.