All-Southern Conference selection Chad Nighbert, John Peacock and D.T. Tanner, who was the unmistakable emotional leader of the group, have all used up their four years of eligibility. But anybody looking for this team to start crying about what they lost last year will be sorely disappointed. We'll be all right. There's a dropoff because everybody we lost were good. But life goes on.
Life does indeed go on.
And although the linebacking corps may have lost a lot of experience, what they didn't lose was speed, especially on the outside corners. Complementing the speedster Morrell on the other outside spot is Jason Neese, a redshirt freshman out of McEachern High School. Jason Neese is a good athlete. They are all pretty good athletes, and should turn out to be pretty good ball players. Larry Rogers is one of the leading candidates to start at middle linebacker.