Instead of beating the dead horse about OHIO winning (or not) the MAC Championship, lets discuss some position battles to watch during camp.

Obviously QB will be important to watch. I think Maxwell has a huge opportunity to step up and claim his spot for the next few years. This will be a fun one to watch. I think the other QB's we have brought in will provide solid competition.

What other positions are you looking forward to seeing play out during camp? I am curious to see who replaces Sebastian Smith at WR. Cherry looks like an exciting prospect but can he break in as a freshman? That remains to be seen.

What about on defense? Bradd Ellis played significant snaps down the stretch at CB for us? Can he maintain that role? Who will step up from the front 7 to break out this year?

Can't wait for the season to start!!!

But, will we MACC? Inquiring minds want to know. ;-)

Seriously, I'm excited about this season, and see great possibilities for the 2017 'Cats! Go OHIO!

I agree with both of you. I see this as a very balanced team, with no weaknesses. I think that the line will be much better this year, and the offense will roll.

What keeps me up at night is offensive line depth. I feel really good about the left side of the line but I'm not sure what depth there is. I say this based somewhat on an incomplete roster.
I'm also curious to see what type of pass rush this group can generate. I'm looking forward to some of the younger defensive linemen joining the rotation.

The roster at Ohiobobcats.com is AFU. They are obviously moving to a new web page design, which I hope will be done by Fall camp.


The depth chart at ourlads.com shows the following as the backups:
LT - Trotter Rs Freshman
LG - Nick Sink Rs Freshman
C - Notestine Rs Freshamn
RG - Grimes Rs Sophomore
RT - Kuhar Rs Junior

That's an exceptionally young group of backups, so let's hope that none of the starters gets a serious injury. The flipside, though is this: If these redshirt Freshmen are good enough to leapfrog the other linemen on the Roster, they have to be pretty good now, and next year they will be even better. The above may be looking at the core of the offensive line for the next few years (if the 2017 recruits don't pass them).