I looked back and did not see this...if I'm repeating news....sorry...
One of the major tasks for Delaware’s football team in its quest to contend for the CAA title and return to the NCAA playoffs in 2011 is rebuilding its secondary, well-manned this past season by senior corners Ty Grant and Anthony Walters and senior safeties Anthony Bratton and Darryl Jones.
Kasseim Everett was expected to be a key part of retooling that position area.
Not anymore.
A second violation of team rules, this time an alcohol-related driving offense last weekend, has gotten the promising cornerback dismissed from the football team.
bluehenbillk wrote:Yep old news. Starting DE Chris Morales isn't coming back either.
Then Morales + looking at the ALL CAA page then I count 7 starters UD losing from their defense:
-Morales at DE
-Siddiq Haynes- 2nd team All CAA at DL
-Matt Marcorelle- 2nd team All CAA at LB
-Anthony Bratton- 1st team All CAA team at safety (and AA)
-Tyrone Grant- 2nd team All CAA at CB
-Anthony Walters-2nd team All CAA at CB
-Darryl Jones- 3rd team ALL CAA at safety
So losing 7 of 11 starters on defense. Better get some more transfers and hope your offense is even better than last yr...
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bluehenbillk wrote:Yep old news. Starting DE Chris Morales isn't coming back either.
Then Morales + looking at the ALL CAA page then I count 7 starters UD losing from their defense:
-Morales at DE
-Siddiq Haynes- 2nd team All CAA at DL
-Matt Marcorelle- 2nd team All CAA at LB
-Anthony Bratton- 1st team All CAA team at safety (and AA)
-Tyrone Grant- 2nd team All CAA at CB
-Anthony Walters-2nd team All CAA at CB
-Darryl Jones- 3rd team ALL CAA at safety
So losing 7 of 11 starters on defense. Better get some more transfers and hope your offense is even better than last yr...
Well, on the bright side, we bring back the freshman quarterback that beat JMU last year.
BDKJMU wrote:
Then Morales + looking at the ALL CAA page then I count 7 starters UD losing from their defense:
-Morales at DE
-Siddiq Haynes- 2nd team All CAA at DL
-Matt Marcorelle- 2nd team All CAA at LB
-Anthony Bratton- 1st team All CAA team at safety (and AA)
-Tyrone Grant- 2nd team All CAA at CB
-Anthony Walters-2nd team All CAA at CB
-Darryl Jones- 3rd team ALL CAA at safety
So losing 7 of 11 starters on defense. Better get some more transfers and hope your offense is even better than last yr...
Well, on the bright side, we bring back the freshman quarterback that beat JMU last year.
Our D will be fine. 2 DB transfers plus a talented group of young kids...one who started a few games over the past couple years. They'll be faster, though they won't hit as hard.
Our LBs will be better than last year...no offense to MM.
We are gettting a former DT back, although he looks like he'll beed to lose some weight (shouldn't be a problem...he has nearly 6 months to get back into shape) and we have several talented back ups returning. My guess is we'll try to bring in one transfer later.
Our O-line will be scary good...and deep. RB is set...we have some speed that will provide a break for AP. TE has some depth. WR's are solid...and if we get the guy we think we have we will have a good set of WRs with a legitimate deep threat.
QB...Sasek is good enough to get us into the playoffs. Donnelly and Burns will back up. But, if we get a transfer QB we can't refuse...
Nobody is really worried about the front 7. We get back 2 300lb+ DT's that have both started but were injured/suspended last season. It's the secondary that is the big question mark....
Our LBs will be better than last year...no offense to MM.
MLB loses both Marcorelle, and Makumbie. Hard to see the LBs as a whole being better with the loss of those two. Position where experience and leadership are very important. Who do you see manning the middle, and what makes you say they will be better than those two?
Worrillow will move over from an OLB to play the middle - he's more suited for the middle actually & played there his FR year some when Marcorelle was injured. MM is someone who is hard to replace but UD has actually had plenty of experience doing it as he was frequently injured during his 6 years in Newark. Makumbi wasn't a starter, although he was more of a capable backup. LB is as one of a few areas the Hens are stacked with depth so I'd say, along with most knowledgeable Hen fans that we'll be fine there & on the front.
Col Hogan wrote:I looked back and did not see this...if I'm repeating news....sorry...
One of the major tasks for Delaware’s football team in its quest to contend for the CAA title and return to the NCAA playoffs in 2011 is rebuilding its secondary, well-manned this past season by senior corners Ty Grant and Anthony Walters and senior safeties Anthony Bratton and Darryl Jones.
Kasseim Everett was expected to be a key part of retooling that position area.
Not anymore.
A second violation of team rules, this time an alcohol-related driving offense last weekend, has gotten the promising cornerback dismissed from the football team.
The blog writer confirmed in the comments section that it was an underage DUI that did Everett in...
Let him sign on with another team and then transfer him back. All will be well then.
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bluehenbillk wrote:Worrillow will move over from an OLB to play the middle - he's more suited for the middle actually & played there his FR year some when Marcorelle was injured. MM is someone who is hard to replace but UD has actually had plenty of experience doing it as he was frequently injured during his 6 years in Newark. Makumbi wasn't a starter, although he was more of a capable backup. LB is as one of a few areas the Hens are stacked with depth so I'd say, along with most knowledgeable Hen fans that we'll be fine there & on the front.
Agreed - Marcorelle was a great player, but even last year he spent a lot of time on the sidelines even as he stayed healthy enough to appear in all but one game. Worrilow is a real MLB anyway and more of a natural MLB than Marcorelle was (who was actually a converted DE since he couldn't take the beating anymore at that position). And Makumbi probably wasn't even the best backup LB on the corps - Lugo and especially Hunte really came on later in the year.
The front 7 is more than capable, the real and only question for the Hens is that defensive backfield. There's talent there, both in terms of what was already in the system (Tunstall, Breaker, Burley) and in terms of who's coming in (Hawkins, and the JUCO transfer) - the question is does that talent result in a good backfield. Time will tell.
bluehenbillk wrote:Worrillow will move over from an OLB to play the middle - he's more suited for the middle actually & played there his FR year some when Marcorelle was injured. MM is someone who is hard to replace but UD has actually had plenty of experience doing it as he was frequently injured during his 6 years in Newark. Makumbi wasn't a starter, although he was more of a capable backup. LB is as one of a few areas the Hens are stacked with depth so I'd say, along with most knowledgeable Hen fans that we'll be fine there & on the front.
I'd agree you guys look ok at LB, but the comment I responded to was that you would be better at LB than last year, and it's hard to see the 2011 lineup as an improvement. Worrilow would seem to be a good fit at MLB, but remains to be seen if he can fill that position as well as Marcorelle and Makumbi did.
bluehenbillk wrote:Worrillow will move over from an OLB to play the middle - he's more suited for the middle actually & played there his FR year some when Marcorelle was injured. MM is someone who is hard to replace but UD has actually had plenty of experience doing it as he was frequently injured during his 6 years in Newark. Makumbi wasn't a starter, although he was more of a capable backup. LB is as one of a few areas the Hens are stacked with depth so I'd say, along with most knowledgeable Hen fans that we'll be fine there & on the front.
I'd agree you guys look ok at LB, but the comment I responded to was that you would be better at LB than last year, and it's hard to see the 2011 lineup as an improvement. Worrilow would seem to be a good fit at MLB, but remains to be seen if he can fill that position as well as Marcorelle and Makumbi did.
Matt was a second team MLB...and no other Hen LBs got press. Frankly, MM was good, but he wasn't a superstar...and it isn't as if he spent 4 years being an LB. Worrilow will fill in for MM and we won't lose much...he has a good shot at making the All CAA team. Call it a wash...but I think PW has better LB instincts. The other LBs will have another year under their belts. If this group stays healthy, they have a good shot at being better than last year's unit.
Also, our interior DL will be strong and bigger than last year...eating up blocks. No one's going to be running it up the gut on us...and it should free up our LBs to make plays.
GannonFan wrote:Worrilow is a real MLB anyway and more of a natural MLB than Marcorelle was (who was actually a converted DE since he couldn't take the beating anymore at that position). And Makumbi probably wasn't even the best backup LB on the corps - Lugo and especially Hunte really came on later in the year.
Well, I don't know exactly how you can make the observation that Hunte really came on. When Hunte did play it was in nickel/dime situations & he was dropped into coverage. He made a pick in the EZ against UMass but other than that his coverage was ordinary for a LB.
GannonFan wrote:And Makumbi probably wasn't even the best backup LB on the corps - Lugo and especially Hunte really came on later in the year.
Seems like wishful thinking. In UD's four playoff games, Makumbi had 17 tackles...Hunte had 4, and Lugo had none.
Reflects the fact that Marcorrelle, even in the playoffs, had to take a lot of plays off. Makumbi filled in at the middle spot. Worrilow, like I said, is a true MLB, whereas Marcorrelle never was. But Marcorrelle couldn't play the OLB spot and Worrilow was slotted there. Worrilow moves to the MLB spot now, which is an upgrade there, and you backfill his spot with an up and comer, who are pretty decent OLB. If Worrilow can stay on the field all the time, and there's no injury history to say he shouldn't, then you have a better MLB, a guy in Harrison who will be a 4 year starter at one OLB spot, and it's not hard to say that the corps could very well be better.
Tribe4SF wrote:
Seems like wishful thinking. In UD's four playoff games, Makumbi had 17 tackles...Hunte had 4, and Lugo had none.
Reflects the fact that Marcorrelle, even in the playoffs, had to take a lot of plays off. Makumbi filled in at the middle spot. Worrilow, like I said, is a true MLB, whereas Marcorrelle never was. But Marcorrelle couldn't play the OLB spot and Worrilow was slotted there. Worrilow moves to the MLB spot now, which is an upgrade there, and you backfill his spot with an up and comer, who are pretty decent OLB. If Worrilow can stay on the field all the time, and there's no injury history to say he shouldn't, then you have a better MLB, a guy in Harrison who will be a 4 year starter at one OLB spot, and it's not hard to say that the corps could very well be better.
How does any of that have anything to do with Hunte and Lugo supposedly being better than Makumbi?
Just on Worrilow, Keeler said at the end of the season last year that he thought Worrilow should have gotten a look at CAA Defensive PoY (if my memory serves).
I think GF is saying Makumbi had the opportunity to get those stats because Marcorelle sat a lot in the playoffs, and the stat could be misleading.
GannonFan wrote:
Reflects the fact that Marcorrelle, even in the playoffs, had to take a lot of plays off. Makumbi filled in at the middle spot. Worrilow, like I said, is a true MLB, whereas Marcorrelle never was. But Marcorrelle couldn't play the OLB spot and Worrilow was slotted there. Worrilow moves to the MLB spot now, which is an upgrade there, and you backfill his spot with an up and comer, who are pretty decent OLB. If Worrilow can stay on the field all the time, and there's no injury history to say he shouldn't, then you have a better MLB, a guy in Harrison who will be a 4 year starter at one OLB spot, and it's not hard to say that the corps could very well be better.
How does any of that have anything to do with Hunte and Lugo supposedly being better than Makumbi?
Well, follow along - Makumbi was the backup MLB. Lugo and Hunte are going to be fighting over the vacant OLB spot left open with Worrilow moving to his natural position. Your argument was that losing MM and Makumbi made the whole unit weaker. I, and others, have pointed out that Worrilow is very likely a better MLB than MM and that Lugo and Hunte can certainly fill the OLB role better than Makumbi. Make sense now?
Chemhen wrote:Just on Worrilow, Keeler said at the end of the season last year that he thought Worrilow should have gotten a look at CAA Defensive PoY (if my memory serves).
I think GF is saying Makumbi had the opportunity to get those stats because Marcorelle sat a lot in the playoffs, and the stat could be misleading.
If I recall, they played Marcorelle some at DE as well, showing confidence in Makumbi to man the middle, which I thought he did admirably. GF talking him down at this point seems to be an effort to minimize his loss, and downplaying Marcorelle is laughable. Proposing that Lugo and Hunte are better players just seems like a big stretch. Lugo in particular has never struck me as anything more than a role player.
Chemhen wrote:Just on Worrilow, Keeler said at the end of the season last year that he thought Worrilow should have gotten a look at CAA Defensive PoY (if my memory serves).
I think GF is saying Makumbi had the opportunity to get those stats because Marcorelle sat a lot in the playoffs, and the stat could be misleading.
If I recall, they played Marcorelle some at DE as well, showing confidence in Makumbi to man the middle, which I thought he did admirably. GF talking him down at this point seems to be an effort to minimize his loss, and downplaying Marcorelle is laughable. Proposing that Lugo and Hunte are better players just seems like a big stretch. Lugo in particular has never struck me as anything more than a role player.
Marcorrelle played almost zero time at DE this past year - the only time he did was when he too hurt to man the MLB position and they tried to get any time from him (i.e pass rushing downs only). Where do you get this idea that they were moving Makumbi up to a starting role and bumping Marcorelle to accomodate that? Worrilow is a much better LB'er than Makumbi, no matter how much you try to avoid that fact. Not sure why you are talking Worrilow down. I understand you want to hope LB play is an area of concern this year, but you're really stretching it by saying that not having Makumbi to back up Worrilow at MLB is going to be a real problem. Most teams would love to have the only problem as to how to find a backup MLB.
Tribe4SF wrote:
If I recall, they played Marcorelle some at DE as well, showing confidence in Makumbi to man the middle, which I thought he did admirably. GF talking him down at this point seems to be an effort to minimize his loss, and downplaying Marcorelle is laughable. Proposing that Lugo and Hunte are better players just seems like a big stretch. Lugo in particular has never struck me as anything more than a role player.
Marcorrelle played almost zero time at DE this past year - the only time he did was when he too hurt to man the MLB position and they tried to get any time from him (i.e pass rushing downs only). Where do you get this idea that they were moving Makumbi up to a starting role and bumping Marcorelle to accomodate that? Worrilow is a much better LB'er than Makumbi, no matter how much you try to avoid that fact. Not sure why you are talking Worrilow down. I understand you want to hope LB play is an area of concern this year, but you're really stretching it by saying that not having Makumbi to back up Worrilow at MLB is going to be a real problem. Most teams would love to have the only problem as to how to find a backup MLB.
I was talkimg about the playoffs, when Marcorelle did spend some time at DE, and did not refer to Makumbi as a starter. The Makumbi discussion was triggered by you claiming both Lugo and Hunte were better than him. I never said anything negative about Worrilow, other than he looked like a good fit at MLB. Worrilow may well be a better MLB than Makumbi, but Lugo and Hunte are not. It was you who made that comparison.
Why would a player get released bc of a DUI. If hes not on program time hes just a some guy who happens to go to a certain school. I a random 34 year old guy get a DUI he wont lose his job. Doesnt make sense I tell you.
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How does any of that have anything to do with Hunte and Lugo supposedly being better than Makumbi?
