Can anyone recall a KF starter

Tkingpin said:
I remember a LB back before Hodge and Greenwood. Maybe it was Ed Myles. Did he lose his starting job to big George? I think so. Then he started again as a senior....

Am I recalling that correctly?
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Myles took over for Grant Steen after he graduated.
 
SpiderRico said:
Bob Sanders replaced someone in the middle of 2000, but I can't, for the life of me, remember who he replaced...
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I think it was Tim Dodge and it was against Wisconsin. That was 2/3 of the way through the season. Dodge moved to WR his SR season in 2001 because of Bob.
 
SpiderRico said:
These are the ones I remember off the top of my head:

1. Bob Sanders over ??? during the middle of 2000.
2. Fred Russell over Aaron Greving in 2002 causing Greving to quit the day before the Michigan game.
3. Ricky Stanzi over JC in 2008.
4. Nate Meier over Mike Hardy this year.
5. Matt Vandeberg/Riley McCarron over KMM for punt returner this year.
6. Dillon Kidd over Connor Kornbrath for punter this year.

That's about all I've got just going off memory.

I don't think the issue revolves so much around playing favorites or playing upperclassmen over underclassmen. I think the issue is that once a starter is "entrenched", the backups aren't getting as many snaps during the season as the starter because we are a developmental program and the starters still need a lot of reps. This leads to not having opportunities to show improvement to the coaching staff during the season, which then becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy of playing the guy that gives you the best chance to win because the other guys (backups) aren't getting enough reps to show that they can be a guy that can help you win. Unless there is just downright substandard play by a starter, the staff isn't going to look at other guys. So a starter will only lose his job from poor play, not because the guy below him shows enough improvement that they leapfrog the starter.
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Greving had several injuries throughout his career. That's why he quit. He couldn't stay healthy.
 
Jonesy86 said:
If I remember correctly, Mossbrucker over Murray. Then Murray got it back. I seem to recall a lot of hype over Mossbrucker, then he just disappeared into obscurity.
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there are a lot of examples - this is the first one that came to mind - Murray made the PSU kick and the rest is history.
 
lightning1 said:
I thought Eubanks got injured and Bruggeman came in and took over. Could be wrong.
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Eubanks got switched to guard in 2008 after starting his first two years. He was small and his legs underpowered. Bruggeman got the nod at center. I think Eubanks played guard in 2009 as well with Ferentz at center.
 
AreWeThereYet said:
Eubanks got switched to guard in 2008 after starting his first two years. He was small and his legs underpowered. Bruggeman got the nod at center. I think Eubanks played guard in 2009 as well with Ferentz at center.
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I feel like Eubanks was center in 09.
 
herkeye said:
Fred Barr graduated, so Hodge got the nod, but I think Greenway beat out Kevin Worthy.
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Kevin Worthy and George Lewis were both senior to Greenway/Hodge. I believe Worthy started at WLB as a junior and got beat out by Greenway, who was a sophomore, as a senior.
 
PCHawk said:
I feel like Eubanks was center in 09.
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Geez: Memories ARE short. You are correct, Raph was center in 2009. Bruggs straight up beat him out in 2008. It WAS a story.

Raph came a me back to start in 2009. Then BF started in 2010. He was a key reason for the 2010 problems. When Gettis and MacMillan both went down and 5th year walk-on Koeppel had to start, the combo of BF and JK turned into a turnstile in the center of the line and that was the end of the Iowa O.
 
lightning1 said:
that lost his job to an underclassman, that wasn't due to injury? I can think of Jake Christiansen. Anyone else? I'm curios because of the other thread where Pat Harty claims that KF doesn't play favorites. That discussion evolved into "once a guy earns a starting spot, he never loses it til he graduates".

Jake Christiansen
Herb Grigsby? Lord knows he dropped enough passes but I don't remember if he lost his job or didn't come back for his SR year.
There has to be more, right?
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The Grigsby year also started with some BS at Tight End. I can't even remember the name of the guy who supposedly was at the top of the first depth chart, but he supposedly beat out a guy who is in the NFL right now.

Just like Grigsby, he wasn't starting long.
 
CAARHawk said:
Geez: Memories ARE short. You are correct, Raph was center in 2009. Bruggs straight up beat him out in 2008. It WAS a story.

Raph came a me back to start in 2009. Then BF started in 2010. He was a key reason for the 2010 problems. When Gettis and MacMillan both went down and 5th year walk-on Koeppel had to start, the combo of BF and JK turned into a turnstile in the center of the line and that was the end of the Iowa O.
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My memory must suck bad cause I can't remember a center with the initials BF that started in '10.
 
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