Alex Mayes is retiring because of injuries. Will remain on scholarship

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I have been a fan of Alex since he committed. He was a fairly regular poster on /r/CFB and provided some really interesting looks into life as a Big Ten player. It's sad to see this, but I wish him all the best
 

As few DTs the gophers have I'm surprised they move one to the offense.

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The Alex Mayes news is old but moving Hall to O-line is very surprising. Wow.
 

No kidding very suprised hope we got more depth at dt then we on gh think we have .
 



Deckergopher said:
No kidding very suprised hope we got more depth at dt then we on gh think we have .
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The Hall move may be a sign of Miller looking for smaller more athletic tackles. DT depth is fine this year. They have 2 Seniors, 3 Juniors, and 1 Sophomore. However, they will definitely need to find a few DTs in each of the next 2 recruiting classes.
 

Wow, just realized we now have zero HS DT's from the 2015 and 2016 classes. You can bet we'll be hitting the JC ranks soon enough at that position.
 

Stuff said:
As few DTs the gophers have I'm surprised they move one to the offense.

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There is a ton of unknowns on both the OL and DL heading into the upcoming season. Clearly they felt Hall had a better chance of helping the team on offense. The current roster lists 18 players at OL so hopefully they can find at least 8 to make up a strong starting group with some key backups. Both lines will be interesting to watch during the spring to see which players are getting the looks with the #1 group.
 




GopherWeatherGuy said:
The Hall move may be a sign of Miller looking for smaller more athletic tackles. DT depth is fine this year. They have 2 Seniors, 3 Juniors, and 1 Sophomore. However, they will definitely need to find a few DTs in each of the next 2 recruiting classes.
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Bodies. Different than depth.
 

Spoofin said:
Bodies. Different than depth.
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Epke, Richardson, Timms, and Stelter have all seen significant playing time. Add Jackson as a solid JUCO. Every time someone asks Claeys about DL depth, he mentions Gary Moore. They have more than just 'bodies'.
 

GopherWeatherGuy said:
Epke, Richardson, Timms, and Stelter have all seen significant playing time. Add Jackson as a solid JUCO. Every time someone asks Claeys about DL depth, he mentions Gary Moore. They have more than just 'bodies'.
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Depends how you look at it. I watched 3 of 6 guys you named get pushed around with ease last year, so I may argue significant playing time doesn't necessarily equate to more than being just a body. 2 of the other 3 didn't play for us last year and the last guy is coming off of injury.

I'm not thinking we are doomed - I'm Luke warm tho. I would love to see that be an area of strength. Maybe then we wouldn't need to sell out our LBs and Safeties on almost every play to stop the run. We likely can't do that this year anyway with EM31 and BBC gone. I'm glad you are optimistic on that position group. I hope you're right. I'm just not sold on it at this point as an area of depth.
 

Case in point why you always try to recruit 4 or 5 OLs each year and get a couple of PWOs as well.
 

Spoofin said:
Depends how you look at it. I watched 3 of 6 guys you named get pushed around with ease last year, so I may argue significant playing time doesn't necessarily equate to more than being just a body. 2 of the other 3 didn't play for us last year and the last guy is coming off of injury.

I'm not thinking we are doomed - I'm Luke warm tho. I would love to see that be an area of strength. Maybe then we wouldn't need to sell out our LBs and Safeties on almost every play to stop the run. We likely can't do that this year anyway with EM31 and BBC gone. I'm glad you are optimistic on that position group. I hope you're right. I'm just not sold on it at this point as an area of depth.
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I see only losing Ndondo-Lay and adding Jackson and Moore as an upgrade for this year. I don't think adding any more freshman DTs would have had an impact this year. I definitely agree that DT depth becomes a concern after this year.
 

GopherWeatherGuy said:
I see only losing Ndondo-Lay and adding Jackson and Moore as an upgrade for this year. I don't think adding any more freshman DTs would have had an impact this year. I definitely agree that DT depth becomes a concern after this year.
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If we are just talking DT I think we are fine. I am far less sold on the DE position. It has already been a big weakness for us the past few years and I don't really see a lot of great options on the current roster that lead me to believe it is going to get better this season.

It really speaks to how great the secondary and especially the corners have been in that they have really limited passing attacks with little to no help from the DL. If we take a step back at corner next year we need to take a step forward at DL to offset it and right now I don't see it. Hopefully some guys emerge and we can find someone that can really get after the QB.
 

MinneStoa said:
I have been a fan of Alex since he committed. He was a fairly regular poster on /r/CFB and provided some really interesting looks into life as a Big Ten player. It's sad to see this, but I wish him all the best
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Was always fun to read his ama's and get a insight of what it is like to be a cfb player. Hope for the best for him in the future.
 

We are fine at DT. It has to be a priority next recruiting period and we might have to add a JuCo down the road, but we really have decent depth at DT and we should next season as well.

As others have pointed out, the staff seems pretty high on Moore too.

For Hall, you don't move FR to different positions for depth, you do it to put them in the best position to succeed. I'd guess the staff thought he'd be a better OT than a DT. Sounds good to me.
 

Too bad about Mayes, but understandable, he's got a long life ahead of him, best of luck to him. As for DT, I also suspect that they may hit the JC ranks for help there again.
 

Best of luck Alex. Good kid, bright future ahead of him.
 

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