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He was awful last year. I'm a Crowder man, myself.

It's true.

The problem IMO is that he and Stone are really better guard than centers, but we are good at guard with Fulton, Jackson, Thomas, etc.

Malik Jackson swore up and down to me that Bullard was the toughest UT OL he faced in practice, FWIW.

there are going to be more players that might have started last year or played a lot in rotation that MIGHT not start or play much this year.

Each position group has a new guy in charge. Expectations could be quite different from the previous coach. Some kids may not be able to adapt or meet the expectations of that new coach. Means they end up dropping down depth chart, moving to another position or not playing much. This is fairly normal when staff changes occur and we have had changes for sure.

Sure, Alex might come back in August and meet expectations and move back to starting. that is TBD.

So I expect more of this to happen. don't think this is the last