Ferentz on the 2011 Defensive Line

JonDMiller

Publisher/Founder
Q. How do you look at the situation at defensive line. Lost a lot of good ones there.
COACH FERENTZ: It’s similar to what we did I think we went through last year with the offensive line. We had a good group. If you look at the guys that graduated between 2008, 2009 up front for us offensively, include guys like Bruggeman, Olson, then next year Bulaga. I am probably leaving somebody out. Who else am I leaving out? Raf Eubanks. We lost two pretty good classes there.
I think it’s kind of similar here. We have two outstanding leaders with Mike Daniels and Broderick Binns coming back. They’ve both played well for us. They’ll certainly be the guys that we start with. I think we’ve got a lot of interesting players.
I can envision us probably playing six to eight guys as opposed to we were pretty locked in with five this past year. We’re looking forward to the competition, see how the guys do.
Q. How has Carl Davis progressed?
COACH FERENTZ: I think well. I think well. He’s one of the kids, too, that we probably could have inched him along last year and thrown him in there a little bit. We talked a little bit about it in August. He and another guy on the offense were in some categories. We decided to hold them back. I think that will be a good thing. We’re expecting him to be in the mix."
 






Spud deserves a bit of a "plug" here ... he was already predicting that Iowa would be going with a deeper rotation on the DL in 2011. Kudos to Spud!
 




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