The Bone Yard

Ankrah will likely play inside this year

I'm haven't heard anything definitive on this but what do you guys think Ankrah could weigh if he wanted to add mass and play indside?

Think he could make it up to 285?

I don't think he's too far from that now actually. He looks big enough to play DT.

I wouldn't be as opposed to the as I would have been earlier on. I think it could work. I'd rather have experience in the middle. Put Gregory and Moss and Valentine on the ends and let them go hard.

I don't see adding weight to his frame would be a problem.

The problem I see is a guy that has played DE all throughout HS and now college life for the past 6 to 7 years and then ask him to move inside for what should be his most productive year as a Husker at DE.

Also, he is our ONLY returning starter in our front 7 and did play well in the last half of last season.

If you move Ankrah to DT, then you also have to solve the problem of your SDE opposite of Gregory. A player who we are all chalking up as a for sure starter next year from the JUCO ranks that hasn't played a down of AQ level football.

Even if you solve one problem, you create another.

If it was me?

VV as a NT, and run a legit 3-4. You can still fit Ankrah and some others in 4 or even 5 man lineman fronts if you want. Behind that you fit your 20-some LBs into some spots and get after people off the edge and with some speed.

But that is just me. And I don't know anything.

"Even if you solve one problem, you create another"

This is where we are right now. It will be the staffs job to figure out how to get the most talent on the field.

Things I know:

VV must have an impact and become a starter.
Curry must also become a contributor and be able to play valuable minutes.
Gregory will be an immediate impact.
We need Moss or Valentine to step up amd contribute, regardless of where Ankrah is playing next season.

Ankrah doesn't excite me inside. But he's big body and can gain the weight easily. This will be different than forcing Meredith inside.
Ankrah has also struggled off the edge and making plays in space.

While we will be real young on the edges...we should be more athletic.

Especially with Rome leaving...we are wet toilet paper thin at the most important position on the field outside of QB. We could use Ankrah there

Once again agree. Ankrah doesn't excite me at DE for the reasons you've mentioned. He just seems to have cement in his cleats, for a DE. I'm not sure how he'll work out at DT, but its worth a shot for depth purposes. Think we'll have to ride or die with youth at DE.

Easy question.

Are we recruiting to a 4-3? One would be led to believe that any school recruiting to a 4-3 would be recruiting 2 to 3 guys at DT every year.

What is our 2 deep at DT for next year? A couple of RS Fr and....

If we move Ankrah inside, what is our DE 2 deep next year? Gregory and............

We have an upcoming strength. It is our LBs. If we are going young, why not get your most athletic players on the field?

As opposed to putting guys out of position and needing to gain weight in their 5th year in the program, why not build your younger guys into a newer and better system when you have the chance?

Again. I don't know anything. Just throwing some stuff out there. IF we can't land 4-3 DTs like everybody else in the country wants, maybe we would have better success getting 3-4 wide bodies?

I hear you, but he LOOKS like one, and kind of runs like one, too...

I don't think he will move inside for good, but probably on passing downs when we run our smaller D front. I don't know what to do with him, drop some weight to get faster, or at weight to move inside. He isn't quick enough to play outside,but moving him his Sr year doesn't sound like a good idea. We will know soon enough, if he's moving then he will be playing there in the spring game.

We don't have the bodies right now to run a 3-4 consistently

And we had the bodies to run a 4-3 'consistently' last year? We had 5 Seniors in our front 7 and got embarrassed by anybody with a pulse offensively last year.

All-time record breaking numbers with a 4-3 and 5 5th year Seniors in the rotation. Yes. Lets do that again, shall we?

If it didn't work the first or second time, keep doing what you are doing. Eventually things will work out.