Doug LaMaurice
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I think so, especially like β so Isaiah West tore his ACL.
It wasn't like β because he wasn't even involved in the spring last year.
Bo also injured his knee, but his β if I recall correctly, his injury in high school did not recover or would not require surgery.
It just required like him being off of it for two months or something like that, which then still ended his season, but β
His runway, he was a little bit ahead of Isaiah, I think, when he got here in terms of being able to do some stuff.
For Isaiah West to come off an ACL and then a torn labrum and, frankly, play it all as a freshman is a bit remarkable.
And the same thing is true for Bo.
And Bo has not, as we've discussed many times, not a lifelong running back.
He's got some receiver background in his game as well.
I think...
Both of these guys, and it's a shame they can't be on the field in the spring because I think they are missing something by not being able to do that.
But there is a lot, a lot, a lot of room for growth for both these guys.
And everyone knows the cliche about players make their biggest leaps between freshman and sophomore year, and I do think that's true.
But it could be especially true of guys who basically don't have high school senior seasons.
So I don't know exactly what that means for either guy, but I definitely believe that it means both will be better players in the fall.
And some of these things we're talking about, especially with the making guys miss stuff and a lot of things that...
You know, there's skill set involved, and you can get bigger, faster, stronger, and they have.
We can talk about that.
But I also think it's about reps and feel and experiencing things and reaction and banking those reactions and then learning the playoff of them in the future, just like they don't have a lot of that.
And they got some of it last year.