We really missed having another running back last year. Hopefully Dixon is recovered from his injury.

Coombs can’t claim much involvement with Oregon’s recruiting history as he’s just been there one year, I do hope he and the new D line coach can connect with some prospects. If we had the same success recruiting D linemen as we have had with tight ends we’ll be a lot better on D.

Bellevue is apparently a big time high school program, at least by Washington standards. Resume is kind of blank on what he did for 4 years between graduation and working with Bellevue.
Looks like he was to be Eastern Oregon’s DC last year but that didn’t happen.

The excuse of losing a wide receiver while having a returning starter at every other offensive position is lame. Coaches had two full years knowing Doss was graduating, so plenty of time to compensate. We have some great athletes as receivers. Maybe we need to look to change the receiver coach.

Not to knock our underclassmen DL but we haven’t signed many. Last year zero.

Recruiting defensive linemen the last few years he not been an area of notable success.

Even though Idaho is a small state, Larison made an impression there.

Within this article on Idaho players signing yesterday https://magicvalley.com/sports/college/bsu/the-best-player-in-the-state-decides-to-stay-home/article_260788d8-045d-519b-8f6a-7e22065370b8.html there is the quote:

“He plays with a reckless abandon that is rare in football now,” Cody Hawkins, UC Davis’ wide receivers coach, told IdahoSports.com . “I told him, ‘You could run the ball and win us a national championship tomorrow.’ ”

I bet they do, there’s gold to be found. I think some players are hoping for an offer from their favorite school, which might not pan out.

I’ll be surprised if any of the TEs become offensive linemen. Something in the water at Davis seems to prevent offensive linemen from adding weight. Colton Lamson was the one exception to this observation.

Makes sense

There are good athletes but a third of them are tight ends or QBs; positions where we have some underclass depth already.
There seems to be a pattern of adding only one or two defensive linemen a year, that’s not something you can get away with for long. It appears only one DL this year, Toki is recruited as an OL.

Larison “ won a state championship in steer wrestling prior to his senior year” so should be a pretty good tackler.

Can someone explain why Sochor stepped down at the age of 50? He didn't go on to do much professionally, still had lots of productive years left

We were almost at the top, but weren’t.
Giving up a touchdown to lose after taking the lead a minute prior doesn’t show you’re on the level of the team that just went the length of the field to beat you with the game on the line.
We were not on the same level as Eastern in 2018, see first game with them for more evidence of that.
We can extrapolate that we weren’t on the same level as the other cochampion that year, Weber, because they smoked us in 2017 and 2019.

The Aggies almost got to the top of the big sky one year; can’t say they did because they lost to the same conference opponent twice that year. This year they were at the top only in people’s imagination.

Gunnor’s put on some weight since high school, roster lists him at 195 both this year and last.
I imagine there will be an open competition, I hope they pick the right guy.

Basic rule is player has five years to play four so unless something unusual he’ll lose a year.

Our one offensive lineman to get any recognition was Jordan Ford, who just earned a spot in the lineup mid-season ? Was he better than the others?

Not all D2 years were talent mismatches within our conference, that developed as success bred success. In the beginning of Socher years we faced teams with similar talent.
Also don’t overlook the College Division (before there was a D2) Massachusetts game in 72 and the Boise Thanksgiving weekend in 73, those teams were physically superior scholarship teams and we gave them all they could handle. The UMass score was deceptive because of the 5 yard end zones restricted our pass oriented team.

Hiring a run game coordinator... sounds familiar and not promising.