--- On Fri, 5/7/10, Woody <[email protected]> wrote: Can I ask a question? Ok.. I understand that the starters get more playing time than the rest... but is their playing time considerably more than their backups?
It depends. At some positions there are virtually co-starters and who is on the field first often depends on how the coaches plan to attack that particular opponent, who was sharper in practice or warm ups, or who is healthier. At other positions, we may be depth shy, or the backups may not have developed enough physically or technically for the coaches to play them any more than they have to. One of the fallacies with the preseason predictions are that a lot of the prognosticators simply look at a list of how many "starters" were lost without taking into account who their likely replacements are, their importance in the schemes that the teams run, etc. -- GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions 2008 National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us
