The Lions' Pride

This would make me happy. Not that those guys are hurt of course, but that Dukes can get a chance to really step up.

I think Dukes blows up Navy and has a break out game. I dont see why 125 yards and two scores is out of the question here. If he gets 20 carries against this Navy Defense I'm really optomistic of how he's gonna produce Saturday.

Fitz, is Akeel Lynch redshirting??

I believe that's the plan, but if other injuries happen to either Dukes or Zwinak, there's a good chance Lynch will play.

Eugene Lewis is redshirting I thought?

I think Lynch may have wanted to redshirt so he could play in a bowl game.

Im all for that..I just hope and pray they are on the same page-Not that you can coach on a players wants and needs-but....I guess this is where "faith" comes into play!!

I also agree with the recruiting of rb's in limbo--thats what has me worried...

Sean -- any inside scoop you can share..

Per the press conference he is day to day.

it seems he can never make it a full game.....we are alot worse with him out

I know there is a lot of concern right now in regards to red shirting players or getting them onto the field, but we cannot also get caught up with focusing on the “now”. Red shirting Lewis and Lynch are great ideas in that we have a bunch of young receivers and our starting rb is only a sophomore along with 3 other capable runners. If we can red shirt these guys and a few others then we are keeping the cupboard somewhat full at least a couple more years. I couldn’t imagine that BOB has not been straightforward with these guys and they understand the situation. We are very young this year, which bodes well for the future, but our depth will be more of an issue if we cannot red shirt some of the better players we got from the 2012 class. The faith that we need is that we have not seen most of the offense playbook and that once BOB figures out the personnel/package issues we will see the passing game open up more. That should make it easier to sell the program to top skill players for the 2014 class as there will only be a couple more years of sanctions. I understand that the logical argument to this is that we need the best players on field now to sell our current group of recruits that BOB’s system is worth coming here for. I will say that if we see improvements from week to week and we are competitive in the B1G games, then they will stick with us and we will still get some top recruits in 2014.

Let's even hope for the best situation, Bench turns into a very good QB and can get a Juco transfer as a backup. RS Hack and let him develop into the QB we all expect him to become. We will have our QB situation set for the next 4 years, barring injury.