Soonerfan can you confirm or deny
Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 5:39 am
a post I found on another site
If this is true I feel sorry for Peterson he is about to get killed and the sooners will be lucky to win 8 games this year."No, where Wilson is hurting is at O-line, which he has left in a state close to being called a "shambles". He has some promising starters. He has nothing but 1st year backups who just arrived on campus. He has no 3rd team.
Paul Thompson is not the biggest question mark on this offense. O-line is. And Wilson just vacated that position, leaving the cupboard about as bare as I've ever seen it at OU. Even John Blake's O-line coach (Denver Johnson) had more to work with than what Wilson has left for Patton.
To wit:
A QB turned right tackle who has played exactly one game at left tackle while at OU, and that was 4 years ago (Messner).
A promising, yet quite inexperienced left guard (Robinson).
A promising yet still injured center (Cooper, and yes his ankle is still hurting him on a minute-to-minute basis).
A right guard who arrived on campus in June.
A right tackle who got some playing time last year and looks to be like a good one (Braxton).
His 2nd team looks like this: True freshman, true freshman, true freshman, Juco transfer, true freshman.
His 3rd team looks like this: Nobody, a hurt redshirt freshman, the same hurt redshirt freshman, a hurt redshirt freshman, nobody.
The 3rd team consists entirely of Brian Simmons and Ben Barresi--both hurt.
If I were Patton, I might be tempted to punch Wilson now and again for leaving the O-line position in such sorry shape."