The Bone Yard

I agree with a lot of what your saying but what concerns me is why are we losing such good players. I'm concerned that there a lot of unreported problems between some coaches and players.

We're getting two new RBs next season but we shouldn't be losing players like this.

BH was the prettiest, but thats not all that matters.

She's gotta be good in the kitchen too

Ok after taking a step back and reading a lot of different stuff and listening to Damon Benning, etc...

1- The staff had literally no clue he was even considering transferring (assuming the rumors are 100% true)

2- This "rumor" about putting him to slot WR is just that... rumors. and what i heard this morning is it wasn't necessarily a position move but more of an attempt to get him on the field. he'd still be a RB he'd just fill in at the slot from time to time.

3- I am going to sit back and let this play out. I really hope he stays he is a good kid, a great talent, and he sacrificed more than most just to come here. that is what gets me the most is clearly he wants to be here... so if him looking elsewhere is true it makes me really uneasy.

I will wait to pass judgement. Perhaps we all should.

Hate to see him go, however, if he's not with the program, I'll wish him the best and I'll try not to read anything into this other than he sees the writing on the wall. What about the free eduacation!

Ok...I'm going to elaborate here.

This is a loss. Plain and simple. Is it a program changing loss? Probably not. Could be if the right events take place though.. We are worse off today than we were yesterday,

This hurts us on depth. He was an experienced, talented guy. Was he better than AA? I don't think you can say that. I think he offers some things AA doesn't, but I don't think you can say he was better. But I'd take him any day over Cross. And while Newby and Taylor are both very very good prospects...they will be true freshmen. Not who I want to count on.

Maybe Heard wasn't the best in pass pro. Well...Cross, taylor and Newby haven't proven themselves to be either yet.

Let's look back over the last 7 years. We've needed at minimum 2 backs because every year, our starter has gotten injured and banged up. May not have been season ending injuries, but they've missed time and needed a spell. If history repeats itself, we will need at least someone else besides AA this year. I don't particularly care for Cross yet. And i don't like relying on freshmen.

This hurts us from top to bottom. It takes a talented guy off the team. Where Newby could've redshirted, practiced against our defense as a very talented scout teamer and had 3 years to play to be the man after AA goes, that isn't available to you now.

Not to mention that his departure marks the continuance of two disturbing trends. The first is the soapbox I've been on for the last 2 weeks in that we are going to be even further down on scholarship numbers. You can't leave yourself as short as we are going to be and expect to compete with the best of the best. Secondly, is the disturbing trend of not being able to coach up and max out the talent that you do have.

Does Heard's loss cost us a game next year? Can't say for certain it will. Just like no one can say for certain it won't. What it does do is hurt our chances of being as good as we can be as a team and program. Maybe we overcome it. Maybe we don't. All I know is that we would be better off heading into next season with Heard, then we will be without him.

People are neglecting to mention King Frazier, certainly a valued member of the roster as he made the 105 last year and is a Ron Brown favorite

He's a walk-on who hasn't played one meaningful down yet. That's not neglect....that's looking at things for what they are.

When Frazier does something outside of just earning coach-speak praise from scout team duty...then I'll consider him

I truly hope King is the greatest "under the radar back" we have ever seen... just hard to consider him without seeing him tote the Rock in a game

iBR, good, unemotional and well thought out response to the announcement from the local Youngstown regional paper.

The bottom line, if you won't put in the extra effort and hard work that Rex, Ameer and Imani bring everyday, you are not going to supersede them in playing time. If you are not willing to outwork Ameer, Imani and the new RB's coming in this fall, they will excel and pass you by. That is and always has been the known rule of competition in big boy D1 college football.

Like, iBR I don't know any confirmed facts of this situation or how this ends, but the constant second guessing of everything going on about Bo and the program is uncalled for. This is one of the reasons that social media is a predictable tool for those too impatient to know all of the facts before demonstrating their own lack of such. We are supposed to value personal opinions as highly as facts, in today's world, maybe that's why chaos is the norm rather than having common sense prevail.

You aren't supposed to view opinions as highly as facts. And the facts here are that we lost our second string running back. We've proven over the years you need a viable second string option. And now true frosh will be the ones who look to replace him. And our scholarship numbers take another hit. Those are all facts.

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