Cockhill, a former Griz receiver himself, has coached the receivers the past four years and is no stranger to replacing graduated stars. That's tough but we've replaced a lot of guys. Guys like Joe Douglass, Mike Erhardt, Shalon Baker, Matt Wells and Scott Gurnsey. We have to replace guys like that all the time. It's the nature of college.
Guys graduate and move on.
It's time for the younger guys within our program to step up and become players. But unlike other seasons, after Molden and Oelkers, game experience in the rest of the receiving corps runs a little thin. And that is where Cockhill will look to find his third, fourth and fifth receivers. The trio of Brock Sunderland, Rory Zikmund and Randyn Akiona have all been in the system three years and will be juniors next fall. Sunderland, after a stellar spring last season, was plagued by a knee injury in the fall and never really reached full strength.