[duncan_idaho]

I'm concerned about the 2015 season at this point...

No Brantley and no Loud has me concerned about the DL, which is rather unfortunate considering how good I think the back 7 on D is going to be.

The nice thing, I guess, is that I think Barry Odom is a lot more creative about generating pressure, based on his work at Memphis, and the blitzes they showed in the spring were a lot more effective than anything we've seen at Mizzou under Pinkel (and apparently those were the 'vanilla' looks).

But that DL has gotten thin. I was confident DT would at least be a strength with Brantley, August and Hatley forming a strong top 3. That looks like a tougher gig now.

Depth at DE is now terrifyingly slim. Hopefully Harris and Frazier can give some good production, and they can find at least one bench guy who can produce.

Pair that with concerns about WR and Mauk in general, and it could become a "disappointing" season pretty quickly.

RE: Justin Smith...

I'd expect his "event coordinating" will involve showing up to do some unofficial recruiting work at recruiting events (he's involved, the host of the recruit visits, which allows him to interact with recruits as much as he wants). It's a clever way to get another selling point on staff without making him an official football team staff member.

Similar to what OSU does with Stacey Elliott, only more legit, since he's an actual employee and not a dad (who has all the time in the world off of work to be on-campus and spend hours talking to other recruits and parents).