It's Official. Utah's star defensive end Paul Kruger has declared he will enter the NFL draft and forgo his two remaining years of elligibility.
It's not like I didn't see this coming. This is what happens when you have a fantastic season. You lose all your great players and half your coaches. This obviously is a big blow to the Utes. Especially since our best corner, Sean Smith (a junior) is also expected to go pro.
Before this news, I was (perhaps unrealistically) hoping for a Top 20 preseason ranking for next year. Most of our graduating players are on offense, and we have very capable players stepping into those vacancies. But now with two of our defensive play makers likely gone, I will be very surprised if we are even ranked to start next season. Which means that even if we repeat what we did this year, the best we can hope for (once again) is #2. Had we started the season ranked # 20 or better and gone undefeated, there would be a very remote chance of getting a BCS National Championship bid. (only if NO ONE from a BCS conference went undefeated of course.)
Oh well, such is college football. You gotta feel for Max Hall though. With Collie and Kruger both going pro, who is he going to throw to next year?
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Lol, I loved that last line about Hall.
I really like Krugger, so this is a total bummer. And pretty dumb on his part, I think. Like you have said to me before -- he is smaller (in comparison to the NFL players in his position), he has only had one year of college football experience, if he gets injured or anything like that... he only has 2 years of college education under him. it is just a crazy move. but, what can ya do, huh?
lets just hope we will still be able to be successful next year with all these guys + coaches leaving :S
Yeah, I think it's too bad that those guys are leaving. However, we have still a lot of really good returning players and it sounds like we already have some commitments because of the Sugar Bowl and I'm confident we'll be pretty good next year. I don't think we'll be 13-0, but I guess you never know. Go Utes!
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