The 2010 Home Opener Depth Chart

by BirdGT on Sep 1, 2010 12:01 PM EDT in Georgia Tech Football

This is the depth chart according to most recent AJC and Macon Telegraph reports. The only major difference is that Coley reported Logan Walls will start at NT over T.J. Barnes. At punter, Chandler Anderson and Sean Poole are still competing for a starting position as are Austin Barrick and Nick Claytor at tackle. Jerrard Tarrant is the man at punt returns and he'll be back there again this Fall. Orwin Smith and Daniel McKayhan are going to be returning kickoffs.

Our average experience on starting offense is 3.6 years in college. Our average experience on the second team offense is 3.3 years in college. That's pretty strong. On defense, our average experience on first team is 3.5 years and second team is 3.4 years. To say we are a veteran squad would be a huge understatement.

For comparison's sake, our first and second offensive line averages 284 pounds and features only one 300 pounder while a passing team like FSU features a line that averages 297 pounds on its first two OL's and has six guys over 300 pounds.

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BC OL

Average is ~300 pounds with 7X 300 pounders.

I write stuff From the Rumble Seat.

by BirdGT on Sep 1, 2010 1:36 PM EDT reply actions

I love it when you respond to your own post

perhaps because the rest of us aren’t quick enough to come up with a response that rises to the intelligence of your articles.

by Atlanta's original team on Sep 1, 2010 4:15 PM EDT up reply actions

Now that I have that out of the way

is the weight thing still part of our continuing conversation about how the flex bone requires mobile linemen who are prone to be a little lighter?

by Atlanta's original team on Sep 1, 2010 4:17 PM EDT up reply actions

I think it's our S&C philosophy

Check out this post by Heather Dinich.

Doug has an article in the AJC about it, too.

I write stuff From the Rumble Seat.

by BirdGT on Sep 1, 2010 4:23 PM EDT up reply actions

The quote in Doug's article

from Sean Bedford is interesting. I believe him to a point but I am also reminded that there was a time when coach Paul “Bear” Bryant believed that his offensive linemen should not be much bigger than 230 pounds, and one of them, Cecil Dowdy, was an All American guard playing at 195. Bryant for years said, “We out-quick them” with their smaller offensive lines. The point is by the end of his coaching career he discovered that he could play linemen who were 50 and 60 pounds heavier than he originally thought they had to be and they were still just as quick.

Well, I am just arguing with myself because I find the topic endlessly fascinating and I have yet to decide what I believe about it other than this- Tech is finding the best linemen it can find right now at the best weight it can find and one day Tech will be able to recruit a 320 pound offensive lineman who can move like a cat and run down a linebacker.

by Atlanta's original team on Sep 2, 2010 9:39 AM EDT up reply actions

One update

Spurlock (right guard) is 302. That was a typo.

This team will improve in '10... on its 16-16 conference record over the last 4 years.... after losing 20 games in the last 4 years... after having the 7th worst major-conference defense... after not even winning its own division in the ACC in the last 4.

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by Bud Elliott on Sep 1, 2010 2:18 PM EDT reply actions

corrected

I write stuff From the Rumble Seat.

by BirdGT on Sep 1, 2010 3:36 PM EDT up reply actions

I jumped on here late but was watching the timeline to see when Bud Elliott would show up to a conversation talking about the weight of an offensive line

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by Winfield Featherston on Sep 1, 2010 5:26 PM EDT up reply actions