2009 - 2010 Buff Offense Class Breakdown
I thought I would throw this together for all of you so you know where the Buffs stand as of right now at each position. This will probably be something that will help all of us assess depth and needs as we go into the recruiting season. If I missed something or someone, let me know as this was a pretty excruciating process going through the bios of these players trying to get if they were redshirts or not. I am still working on the defensive chart but hope to have that up later. Two notes of interest in the offensive chart is the fact that I did not advance Ryan Miller and Max Tuioti-Mariner a year as Dan Hawkins expects to get them both medical redshirts. I have really been able to confirm whether Maryland transfer Evan Eastburn is a walk on or on scholarship so I put him down as a scholarship guy until I figure it out.
Some commentary after the jump...tell us what you think the Buffs need to address in the next 43 days of recruiting. The Buffs are looking to sign 11 - 13 more players.
2009 - 2010 Buff Offense Class Breakdown |
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| Pos. | Senior | Junior | Sophomore | Freshman | Incoming |
QB |
C Hawkins | M Ballenger | Cam Wright* | Clark Evans | |
| T Hansen | |||||
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
RB |
Kevin Moyd | Corey Nabors | Darrell Scott | Ray Polk | None |
| D Sumler | R Stewart | ||||
| B Lockridge | |||||
| Arthur Jaffee* | |||||
| 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | |
FB |
J Behrens | Matt Burgner* | None | ||
| 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
WR |
S McKnight | M Simas | C Blackmon | Jarrod Darden | |
| Josh Smith | Ryan Maxwell* | P Bobseine* | A Simmons | ||
| Cam Ham* | J Espinoza* | Dustin Ebner* | |||
| Sean Lieb* | |||||
| 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | |
TE |
Riar Geer | Ryan Deehan | Ryan Wallace | None | |
| Pat Devenny | |||||
| D. Shanahan* | |||||
| L Walters* | |||||
| 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
OL |
Devin Head | Nate Solder | Matt Bahr | Max T-Mariner** | Jack Harris |
| Evan Eastburn | Blake Behrens | Bryce Givens | |||
| K Stevens* | Ryan Miller** | R Dannewitz | |||
| Ethan Adkins | |||||
| Shawn Daniels | |||||
| Mike Iltis | |||||
| Sione Tau | |||||
| David Clark* | |||||
| 1 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 1 | |
| Total | 7 | 10 | 18 | 10 | 4 |
| % | 14.3% | 20.4% | 36.7% | 20.4% | 8.2% |
| Scholar | 5 | 7 | 14 | 6 | 4 |
| Walk On | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 |

Well, every time I look at the wide receiver depth chart, I get sick to my stomach. No other offensive position has more walk ons than wide receiver. Yes, wide receivers, defensive backs and linebackers are good players on special teams but when there are more walk ons at a position compared to scholarship players, you know that is a need position. I should send Diante this and tell him that there is literally no competition and you will be a day one player.
Over 60% of the Buffs' offense are still underclassmen so the youth factor will still be an issue next year.
I personally would like to see the Buffs lock up another tight end (that is, of course, if the Buffs decide to attack the middle of the field again), a fullback and an offensive guard/center or two. Rumor has it that the Buffs have another commit, OG Gus Handler, but until it is confirmed by one of the pay sites, we will not officially claim it.
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I always thought
It was interesting that we didn’t use tight ends at all this season, and looking at that list its clear that Hawk really has placed no importance on tight ends. I don’t agree with that move at all. I don’t know why tight ends are so underrated. Look at what tight ends did for OSU and Missouri. So I would like to see the coaching staff hit that up.
I love looking at our O-Line though. Im expecting big things from the running game with that line pushing the way for speedy and d-scott.
Defiantly send this to Diante. I love J-fly, and am stoaked for Simas, but everything i’ve seen says that he can torch those guys.
by 303buff on
Dec 23, 2008 10:50 AM MST
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yeah, it was horrible how little we used our TEs this year
when I would complain about that during game chats irish (I think it was him) and others would say that maybe due to the patchwork o-line the TEs were having to block a lot more than normal. hopefully geer can have a big senior year, he obviously has the talent, he just needs balls thrown his way.
by nebraskasux on
Dec 23, 2008 12:02 PM MST
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Great work, Irish
It’s really interesting to look at personnel by position this way. Thanks for putting this together.
by highlandsbuff on
Dec 23, 2008 11:07 AM MST
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