Rouse not the stud people here make him out to be (just watch the film)...BUT it's near-impossible for a true frosh to be college-level good, especially at LT. (Bonafide mega-stud 5* recruits like Walker Little and Oregon's Penei Sewell the exceptions to the rule.) I think he'll develop very well, as will the other frosh who saw plenty of PT. I like Miller, and Bragg looked really good in his limited action before injury.
I don't believe the frosh will as be disappointed to "lose their starting jobs" as we might think, since none of them were starters to begin the season in the first place. Most probably didn't expect to play much this season, and in a "normal" OL room they wouldn't have for at least another 2 years.
At least this year we'll have enough OL bodies for spring ball and team activities; Rouse and walk-on Pease (an OL dad claimed he looked good enough to earn a scholarship before getting hurt) should be back in time, 5 OL (3 other frosh, Dalman and Sarell) survived the season, and walk-on Lush will be available. I don't even count Trey Stratford as being on the team at this point. That makes 8, pending Little and Bragg returning (and either of the OL in the portal possibly coming back, who knows). Still sad but better than last year.
For fall, pending commits and/or portal returners:
8 returning scholarship OL (projected starters Little - Bragg - Dalman - Miller - Sarell, 3 RS Frosh Rouse, Hornibrook, Nugent) pending portal
2 returning walk-on OL (Pease and Lush), and possibly mid-season addition Jake Koffman
4 frosh scholarship OL, all of whom are ranked higher than the whole '19 OL class except Bragg (Hinton, McLaughlin, Rogers, Metcalf) pending 1 more potential commit
2 frosh PWO OL (Berzins and Kalny) pending anyone who isn't a PWO (Pease wasn't, for example)
= 16+ bodies in the OL room. Obviously we want those 16 to be scholarship bodies, but we're talking about a massive ground-up rebuild here. Anyone who thinks Carberry is a bad coach isn't factoring in the abject catastrophe Bloomgren left him with.
I don't believe the frosh will as be disappointed to "lose their starting jobs" as we might think, since none of them were starters to begin the season in the first place. Most probably didn't expect to play much this season, and in a "normal" OL room they wouldn't have for at least another 2 years.
At least this year we'll have enough OL bodies for spring ball and team activities; Rouse and walk-on Pease (an OL dad claimed he looked good enough to earn a scholarship before getting hurt) should be back in time, 5 OL (3 other frosh, Dalman and Sarell) survived the season, and walk-on Lush will be available. I don't even count Trey Stratford as being on the team at this point. That makes 8, pending Little and Bragg returning (and either of the OL in the portal possibly coming back, who knows). Still sad but better than last year.
For fall, pending commits and/or portal returners:
8 returning scholarship OL (projected starters Little - Bragg - Dalman - Miller - Sarell, 3 RS Frosh Rouse, Hornibrook, Nugent) pending portal
2 returning walk-on OL (Pease and Lush), and possibly mid-season addition Jake Koffman
4 frosh scholarship OL, all of whom are ranked higher than the whole '19 OL class except Bragg (Hinton, McLaughlin, Rogers, Metcalf) pending 1 more potential commit
2 frosh PWO OL (Berzins and Kalny) pending anyone who isn't a PWO (Pease wasn't, for example)
= 16+ bodies in the OL room. Obviously we want those 16 to be scholarship bodies, but we're talking about a massive ground-up rebuild here. Anyone who thinks Carberry is a bad coach isn't factoring in the abject catastrophe Bloomgren left him with.