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Old man strength and experience is very real in the trenches.

Pakola will be a 4th year and Phillips a 3rd year player next year.  Pakola won't have a ton of game experience, but he's plenty strong, and with some luck, maybe he'll be eligible for bowl practice and game this year (if Stanford makes a bowl...woof).

You'll notice on the roster a new "Volunteer defensive assistant" who has 10+ years of NFL and college DL coaching experience. Wonder why that is?

That definitely made my eyebrow go up.  Anyway, I agree that the DL performance has been so-so for a while now, and regardless of whether you call it a recruiting failure or a development failure, I can understand why Reynolds would be on the hot seat.  I'll say that it's not necessarily a recruiting failure that Andres Fox, Tobe Umerah, and Lance Keneley were unable to put on weight/strength or otherwise do what was necessary to play DL.  I think all were recruited with the idea that they could play DL and that plan struck me as credible based on their size/profile.  Keneley's dad played DT in the NFL at 295, for example, and the son has a big frame as well.

[TrumpCard]

Old man strength and experience is very real in the trenches.

Pakola will be a 4th year and Phillips a 3rd year player next year.  Pakola won't have a ton of game experience, but he's plenty strong, and with some luck, maybe he'll be eligible for bowl practice and game this year (if Stanford makes a bowl...woof).

You'll notice on the roster a new "Volunteer defensive assistant" who has 10+ years of NFL and college DL coaching experience. Wonder why that is?

That definitely made my eyebrow go up.  Anyway, I agree that the DL performance has been so-so for a while now, and regardless of whether you call it a recruiting failure or a development failure, I can understand why Reynolds would be on the hot seat.  I'll say that it's not necessarily a recruiting failure that Andres Fox, Tobe Umerah, and Lance Keneley were unable to put on weight/strength or otherwise do what was necessary to play DL.  I think all were recruited with the idea that they could play DL and that plan struck me as credible based on their size/profile.  Keneley's dad played DT in the NFL at 295, for example, and the son has a big frame as well.