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2009: (this is your RS SR class for the 2013 roster thanks to Kiffin/Fulmer)

11 4* or better signees........2 REMAIN

4* SDE Walls remains on the team and will prob back up the starter if I had to guess.
4* CB Eric Gordon remain on the team but he will share time at best at nickelback unless he becomes disciplined
All others are gone. 8 or more never panned out or got dismissed or left.

Teague sacrificed his last years bc we didnt have anyone at CB as he should have been a WR the whole time but we just had to have him in 2010-2011 bc of the failures of the 2007-2009 classes.
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2010: (this is our true SR class thanks to Kiffin/Dooley).....Dooley had 2.5 weeks.

We signed 13 4* or better players + IMO Zach Fulton who played like a 4*.....so 14 elite players.....6 REMAIN (James, Neal, Stone, Fulton, J Smith and Miller)

2 of those 8 that are no longer at UT panned out: Bray and Hunter. The rest never made it in or left or got dismissed like D Rogers. Playing 1 good year is not panning out IMO.
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2011: (this is our true JR class)......Dooley had only 1 year to sign this class (our rivals had 2+ yrs) and our image was not the best nor was the staff he had to throw together with very few SEC/Southern ties due to when he was hired.

11 4* or better signees + B. Randolph who IMO played like a 4*.....so 12 elite players......9 REMAIN (Couch, BRandolph, Maggitt, Tiny, Lane, AJ, BMoore, Coleman and M Jackson)

3 of those 12 are no longer with UT: Lanier, Clear and Arnett. (maybe not being Laniers total fault)
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2012: (this is our true Soph class)

We signed 9 4* or better players + McCullers who is definitely an elite player making a total of 10...I will even incl Peterman as he was rated an 89 as the #1 QB in FL most thought + early reports are solid about him.....making a total of 11

3 of those 11 are probably gone (CP) or no longer on the team (Phillips and Bourque).....we will see on Sentimore but IMO he comes back if academics are not too much for him to overcome to be ok for 2013 bc he lost 12+ hours in his juco transfer + the C- rule hurt him too (maybe that gets fixed by the Fall semester)

Too early to pass too many judgements on the REMAINING 7-8 (Peterman, McCullers, Sentimore, McNeil, Croom, Pig, Bowles, OBrien) but of those I have heard positive signs for all but OBrien who was RS for a reason and Bowles who I have heard needs to develop. No doubt CP panned out too but is probably gone to the NFL after just one year.
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So what is the grand total from 4 years and 48 elite players being signed from 2009-2012?

25 REMAIN incl Sentimore and exluding CP. Almost a 50% attrition rate incl the 2009 disaster class. Take that class away as it is a RS SR class anyway........37 elite players signed from 2010-2012 and 23 remain for an attrition rate of 38%. IIRC most teams lose about 30-35% of their players.

Where do the problem lie in those 25 elite players that remain?

Elite pass rushers: Maggitt has been the only one that has shown glimpses and he was hurt most all of 2012 and is undersized to be effective at WDE on a consistent basis + our need for him at OLB. Lets hope Miller has a breakout year at SDE or Walls or J Smith in their SR years....some finally do their last year.

CBs: Coleman is the ONLY one we have remaining minus a nickelback in Gordon who freelances too often

S: 3 in 4 years remain on the roster and BRandolph is recovering from a major injury and McNeil was a true FR last year so its hard to judge and BMoore appears not to be the elite player we need back there...maybe a new scheme helps him a bit.

RB: 2 in 4 years remain on the roster in Lane and Neal. The teams we compete against have 2-3 times this. Most sign 2-3 a year.

TE: Not 1 elite TE is on this roster (now granted TEs do develop differently but this is puzzling with our history of TEs put in the NFL + our passing game). Only Clear was a 4* TE and some had him as a 4* OT and he is gone of course.

LB: AJ and Maggitt in 4 years........just sad. And people wonder why the 3-4 was ineffective to go with our DBs. A simplified 4-3 is the ONLY way to go til we are at least all the way back and can recruit against anyone. We whiffed trying to sign Santos, Peters and L Dawson to name a few.
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Where have we done well?

QB (it appears and esp if you factor in Bray and what we have seen glimpses of from Worley (Gatorade POY so you could almost add him to the lists above and he has played more than most backups) + the early reports of Peterman

WR: 'nuff said + the 2013 class looks as 1 of the top WR classes in the nation again

DT: McCullers, Sentimore, OBrien and Couch.....we just need to land 2 in this class IMO to go with Carr who appears to me to be our next Malik Jackson or bigger. We struggled here early in Dooleys tenure but the 2012 class really improved things on our roster even when we lost Phillips and 3* Taylor. Signing a top juco again in 2014 will probably be a must too.