Dreadful Off-Season Continues

The bad news continues to get worse for the BG football program, as two more expected contributors on the defensive side of the ball have been dismissed from the program, per The Blade.

The players are Armani Posey (LB) and Dirion Hutchins (DL).  Both played significantly last year and would have been expected to play a lot this year.  Posey was #6 on the team in tackles and Hutchins played in 12 games.

A few notes:

This has been known for a little while.  Posey has already been adjudicated.  It might explain some of the late JUCO pick ups.

For those scoring at home, both players came to BG during the Babers-Jinks transition.  Posey committed to Jinks right before signing day.  Hutchins committed to Babers, de-committed when Babers left and then re-committed to Jinks, again right before signing day.

Since spring practice or so, BG has lost Datrin Guyton, Mike Wilcox. Cooper Lee, Cam Jefferies, Calvin Clater, Tyree Jackson, Jamari Rouse and now Posey and Hutchins.  That's five additional players on the defensive side of the ball for a unit that was #11 in the MAC last year.

I applaud the University's actions on this.  At other places, far more serious issues have been swept under the rug.  I don't want us to be a school like that.  It is already not great to have these things happen and would be worse if they were tolerated.

From a competitive standpoint, this makes a tough job even tougher. BG was 2-10 last year and Coach has been pointing to the first recruiting classes as the ones that were going to bring us back, and those just keep getting thinner. Recruits seem to be a little shier this year than in other years and that just promises to get worse if the team doesn't rebound this year.  Just a lot of question marks.