football team starting to take shape

You'll remember at the start of the month we had a quote from a member of the football team talking about how true frosh Bradley McDougald was much further along than Dezmon Briscoe was when he arrived on Mt Oread.
Well, today Mangino backed that statement up saying he will play at WR and on special teams (could this mean he is the KOR- could be and I hope it is)

Also of note Senior Justin Thorton has been moved back to safety and that means a couple of things.
1- The corners are coming along very nicely, Daymond Patterson has one slot all locked up and Anthony Davis was the talk of the first open practice and was running with the first team. Mangino also mentioned true FR Tyler Patmon (the first commit of the 2009 class) was playing well at CB.
2- There is a possibility that Prinz Kande could redshirt, which could be a very good thing, but Mangino will put the best players on the field regardless of class.
3- Phillip Strozier just got pushed to a back up role and that's okay because I like our safeties best when its Stuckey and Thorton.

Vernon Brooks is looking good (so stop worrying about him- he missed 2 days of practice last week to deal with a family emergency, maybe he doesn't start the season opener but he will be a main cog once the games get more important)

Julian Jones an undersized LB recruit that could blow people up never made it to campus. Does that suck, yeah a little bit, I though he'd be a good ball player but if he shows up maybe we don't get Brooks and this also gives us one more scholly for the 2010 class where we are off to a great start and have already turned down guys that we would have drooled over a couple of years ago.

Mangino said the O line is looking better and they have had "a very good camp, I'm encouraged"

Cites Jeff Wheeler as a guy who is having the best camp he's ever had and the "light has gone on" also said that Oneygbule and Laptad are having good camps- (YAY DE PLAY)

Its pretty clear that Mangino has a boner for Tharp.

I really like how Mangino hasn't tipped his hand about moving KM to WR full time, one it keeps Pick and the others in check and it also gives teams a chance to underestimate KM at WR, which means 100 catches this year.

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