University linebackers, from left, freshmen Oliver Vigille and Cameron Lynch (38), sophomore Marquis Spruill (11), junior nike sb dunks college transfer Siriki Diabate (18) and freshman Dyshawn Davis (35) prepare for drills at a recent practice.siege of Syracuse, New York -- Young. Inexperienced. Undersized
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The two linebackers led SU in tackles in 2010 with 219, accounting for 20-percent of the team’s stops. They were the motors that drove the Orange defense.Dan Conley has some answers. The former Orange star and current linebackers autobus said the team delivers replacements in this linebacker-friendly defense – and he is inwards the process of molding them, just like he availed bash with the two asterisks now fighting for dallying fourth dimension in the NFLIt’s like you’ve got this composition by clay, and you’ve got this chance to mold it,” Conley said of nike sb high SU’s current crop of linebackers. “It’s been great to be able to take guys that haven’t had much experience playing linebacker – Doug Hogue, Derrell Smith – and make them linebackers.”The Orange currently has seven scholarship players at the position. Only three – junior Danny Vaughan and sophomores Marquis Spruill and Lewellyn Coker – were on campus last fall. Only Spruill was a starter.Vaughan, a fourth-year player, and Spruill will start at strong-side and middle linebacker, respectively. They’ll be joined by freshman Dyshawn Davis, who’ll start at the weak-side spot. Only Vaughan played linebacker in high school.While Spruill, who spent a year playing middle linebacker at Virginia’s Fork Union Military
nike sb low dunks Academy in 2009, started every game at the strong-side position, Vaughan played mostly on special teams and saw spot duty behind Spruill and Hogue.Davis, who was recruited as a receiver out of New Jersey, spent last fall at Milford Academy – mostly at safety. Davis was a spring football surprise and almost instantly became a project for Conley and assistant head coach John Anselmo, who helps out with the linebackers“I dismissed see betimes on that this kid’s got a casual to make full a void that he had. So that’s why John and I did spend a lot of time with him,” said Conley, who looks at Davis’ cannonball along and natural instincts and sees a more immature rendering of Hogue.
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