Matt Sheehan

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Going to answer your question with a question, Zach.

One of my favorite tricks that I like to do here.

What's your left tackle situation looking like right now?

Is he coming in as a bonafide starter, you think, on day one?

Will there be some competition?

I don't hate it.

I would categorize it perhaps as a gamble, and I think that's a fair assessment here.

First and foremost, I wish nothing but the best for the kid, like we talked about before recording.

We had him on Lockdown Spartans, nice kid, good leader.

Friend of the program, all this and that, and definitely no sour grapes with his departure, but I think it's a gamble.

Let's talk about the upside here.

How can this work?

He came in as a four-star.

He missed his entire true freshman season because ACL injury.

Then he gets thrust into the starting role, redshirt freshman season.

About three or four games is where he blossomed into a starter.

Now, it wasn't an outstanding season for him, but your first college action in Big Ten play, you're going against the likes of Ohio State, Oregon.

You can understand how that might not go so well right off the rip here.

But, hey, you know what?