Is losing Limas Sweed really that big of a deal?

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Goothrey

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The reason I ask this is that he was out nearly the entire '07 season, yet people are including him as a key loss for this upcoming season. The way I see it, the team has already adapted to playing without him.
 
I still see Sweed as a key loss, since I like to think the OL is going to be an advantage this year rather than a liability, and now that Colt will have more time, it sure would be nice to have Sweed to throw to.

Plus if Sweed were around, we'd have three experienced receivers.

But yeah, it's the loss of potential, not of productivity.
 
I think not (really) having him last year was a big loss, as he would have kept defenses far more honest than they were last season. As far as this season goes, I think it made our younger receivers better by giving them a chance to get on the field early.
 
It was a huge loss last year. We've moved on since then. This is something for the preseason magazines to use for filling up space, that is all. Limas is missed, to be sure, but so is Good Roy, Alfred Jackson, Cotton Speyrer and every other great former Horn receiver.
 
Goothrey is right.....someone can't be a 'key loss' two years in a row. We adjusted last year without him. With a certain freshman coming on strong, our WRs will be just fine.
 
Don't look at it as a loss.... rather as a gaping hole.

We don't have a fast, tall WR option to stretch the field. At least that is what the media / coaches are leading us to believe. Quan and Shipley can't carry the entire passing game... and the latest reports show that the younger talent is hitting a wall.
 
I can only imagine how many more runs JC would have broken with that good a downfield blocker, not to mention that other threat to stretch the D.
 
He was a big loss in 2007. Had he been healthy vs. OU, then I would say he was a big loss this year too but he just wasn't healthy all of last year. Too bad but I understand he didn't want to redshirt. I likely woudldn't want to either that close to the NFL.
 
Yup, Buckner & Williams. Especially Malcolm Williams. He is faster than Limas. Let's see if it translates on the field. Limas has great hands. We'll have to wait and see on these two.
 
Funny but I remember hearing very similar stuff when Limas was a frosh, he even had sort of stone hands on some early occasions, but met his expectations and then some. Pretty tough following good Roy, just like it will be for these youngsters following Limas.

I look for one of them to make some plays early, and disappoint every now and then, just part of the process.
 
I think that Limas was a Bobby Kenedy success story. He certainly had natural gifts, but the player he became on the 40 far exceeded the player he was when he arrived. He was sort of the "anti-Roy" in that regard, and in retrospect I would love to have seen Roy with this coaching staff's experience behind him.

If I am correct in that assessment, we should be happy with the guys we have on hand right now. There's a lot to work with there athletically, and I thin we'll see Williams and/or Buckner really show potential this season.

It would be nice if our offense was good enough that we don't have to put the game in these young guys' hands like we did in the Holiday Bowl of yesteryear with the "Big 3".
 
Finley and Jones more than Limas.

Can't wait to see Buckner and Williams. Guys like Payne and Webber need to step it up. Didn't see much of them at all last year and they didn't have any catches.

UT lost 5 of top 8 receivers last year (Jones, Finley, Sweed, Charles, Pittman) and really only returning Quan, Shipley, CO, and Irby. None of the younger guys played much so that is why there is just currently a pool of young guys and we have to wait and see them in games to see the separation. That pool consists of:

Williams
Buckner
Collins
Kirkendoll
Webber
Payne
 
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