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1.  This question is a bit pessimistic, but if Tuberville were to leave at the end of the year for another program or really any reason at all, do you think he's left the program in better shape than he found it?

2.  Hopefully you've been paying attention to my ramblings throughout the Finding 25 series where I've mentioned on a handful of occasions, as has the coaching staff, that positions may mean nothing heading into the season and that Tuberville simply wants the best talent on the field.  Over the weekend (and keep in mind it was only after 1 practice) this was your starting defense:

On Saturday, DEs Brian Duncan and Sam Fehoko and DTs Colby Whitlock and Myles Wade formed the first-team defensive line. The first nickel defense package had LBs Julius Howard and Bront Bird and DBs Will Ford, Jarvis Phillips, D.J. Johnson, Franklin Mitchem and Cody Davis.

This is the first I've heard of Fehoko at defensive end, but this move lends to the idea that he wants guys that can play out on the field.  This is more of a general question, which is, what are you thinking about how this defense is going to eventually round out?  Feeling good?  Concerned?  Trust in Tubs?

3.  There's been quite a bit of movement along the offensive line already, and we've got four options at left tackle:  Terry McDaniel, LaAdrian Waddle, Mickey Okafor and Beau Carpenter.  Who do you think eventually wins this spot and if you think it's going to be Carpenter, how comfortable would you feel with a freshman, at perhaps the most important position along the line, starting?

4.  In order, of the freshmen defensive backs, who do you think will crack the rotation?  Here's the list:  Tre'Vante Porter, Urell Johnson, Desmond Martin and Russell Polk.

5.  I took the time to copy the roster (after the jump) and get it into a table format.  This is the audience participation portion of Five Questions.  Someone take a player that you've never heard of and find as much information as possible.  Hint:  Google is your friend.  Please, for the love that is all good, help the DTN community.

NO PLAYER POS HT WT YR-EX HOMETOWN/LAST SCHOOL
1 Terrance Bullitt S 6-3 191 Fr-RS Garland, Texas/Naaman Forest
1 Steven Sheffield QB 6-4 197 Sr-3L Austin, Texas/Connally
2 Cornelius Douglas IR 5-10 200 So-Sq Lawton, Okla./Lawton
3 Urell Johnson DB 6-0 163 Fr-HS New Orleans, La. / O. Perry Walker
3 Jacob Karam QB 6-0 211 Fr-RS Friendswood,Texas/Friendswood
4 Derrick Mays WR 5-10 174 Fr-RS Killeen, Texas/Shoemaker
5 Tre’ Porter CB 6-0 182 Fr-HS Midwest City, Okla. / Carl Albert
6 Austin Zouzalik IR 5-11 191 So-1L Lubbock, Texas/Coronado
7 Seth Doege QB 6-1 200 So-1L Wolfforth, Texas/Frenship
7 Will Ford DB 6-0 190 So-1L Abilene, Texas/Cooper
8 Jacoby Franks WR 6-0 195 Jr-2L Orange, Texas/West Orange-Stark
9 Shawn Corker WR 6-1 191 Fr-HS Fort Lauderdale, Fla. / Cardinal Gibbons
9 Jonathan LaCour P 6-1 216 Sr-2L Kingwood, Texas/Kingwood
10 Harrison Jeffers RB 5-7 201 So-1L Lawton, Okla./Eisenhower
11 Tramain Swindall IR 6-3 184 Jr-2L Oklahoma City, Okla./Millwood
12 D.J. Johnson DB 6-0 190 So-1L Austin, Texas/St. Stephen’s Episcopal
12 Taylor Potts QB 6-5 222 Sr-3L Abilene, Texas/Abilene
13 Julius Howard LB 5-11 220 Sr-3L Irving, Texas/Nimitz
14 Desmond Martin S 6-1 190 Fr-HS Stony Point, Texas / Stony Point
15 Scotty Young QB 6-3 198 Fr-HS Denton, Texas / Ryan
16 Cody Davis S 6-2 194 So-1L Stephenville, Texas/Stephenville
17 Detron Lewis IR 6-0 208 Sr-3L College Station, Texas/A&M Consolidated
18 Eric Ward WR 6-0 202 Fr-RS Wichita Falls, Texas/Rider
19 Lyle Leong WR 6-1 175 Sr-3L Abilene, Texas/Abilene
20 Bront Bird LB 6-4 248 Sr-3L Odessa, Texas /Permian
20 Josh Talbott RB 6-0 201 Fr-Sq Trophy Club, Texas/Liberty Christian
21 Jarvis Phillips DB 5-10 189 Fr-RS Dallas, Texas/Carter
22 Jared Flannel DB 5-11 166 Jr-2L Brazoria, Texas/Columbia
23 Dion Chidozie LB 6-1 208 Fr-RS Dallas, Texas/Bishop Lynch
23 Brett Hume WR 6-0 193 Fr-HS Klein, Texas/Klein Collins
24 Corey Lee DB 5-8 167 So-Sq Andrews, Texas/Andrews
24 Eric Stephens RB 5-8 192 So-1L Mansfield, Texas/Timberview
25 Baron Batch RB 5-10 210 Sr-3L Midland, Texas/Midland
26 Franklin Mitchem S 6-2 200 Sr-2L Klein, Texas/Collins
27 Zach Winbush LB 6-1 206 Fr-HS Schertz, Texas / Clemens
28 Brent Mitcham WR 5-9 171 Fr-HS Houston, Texas/Cypress Creek
29 Russell Polk S 5-10 211 Fr-HS Dallas, Texas / Carter
30 Brett Dewhurst S 5-11 197 Jr-2L Klein, Texas/Klein
31 Tim Graves RB 5-9 170 Fr-HS Houston, Texas/Stratford
31 Eugene Neboh CB 5-10 174 So-Sq Odessa, Texas/Permian
32 Aaron Crawford RB 5-10 205 Jr-1L Memphis, Tenn./Ridgeway
33 Bo Whitney TE 6-4 225 Fr-HS Laurens, S.C./Hargrave/Laurens
34 Ben McRoy WR 5-9 160 Fr-HS Lakeland, Fla. / Lakeland
34 Sawyer Vest DB 5-11 172 So-Sq Childress, Texas/Childress
35 Arlan Waller DB 6-0 190 So-Sq DeSoto, Texas/DeSoto
36 Gerardo Acevedo RB 6-1 212 Jr-1L Mission, Texas/Veterans Memorial
37 Andre McCorkle RB 6-1 210 Jr-Sq Corpus Christi, Texas/Texas State
38 Jordan Osborne S 6-0 184 Fr-TR The Woodlands, Texas/The Woodlands/N. Dakota St.
40 Aundrey Barr DE 6-2 230 Fr-RS Carrollton, Texas/Newman Smith
41 Sam Fehoko LB 6-0 233 Jr-2L Honolulu, Hawaii/Farrington
42 Daniel Cobb LB 6-0 215 Fr-RS Killeen, Texas/Ellison
43 Ryan Erxleben P 6-1 192 So-1L Lake Travis, Texas/Lake Travis
45 Kramer Fyfe K 5-8 150 Fr-HS Austin, Texas/Lake Travis
45 Tyrone Sonier LB 6-2 233 Jr-2L Missouri City, Texas /Fort Bend Marshall
46 Christopher Knighton DE 6-1 250 Fr-RS Longview, Texas/Longview
47 Myles Wade DT 6-1 300 Jr-1L Portland, Ore./Central Catholic/Arizona Western C.C.
48 Ryan Haliburton TE 6-4 251 So-1L Wolfforth, Texas/Frenship
49 Donnie Carona K 5-11 217 Jr-2L Beaumont, Texas/Kelly
50 Jackson Richards DE 6-3 248 Fr-HS Southlake, Texas / Carroll
51 Cqulin Hubert LB 6-2 231 Fr-HS Houston, Texas / Eisenhower
52 Alex Chester DS 5-11 200 Fr-HS Austin, Texas/Austin
53 Joe Carmical ILB 6-1 242 Fr-HS Monticello, Ark./Monticello
54 Dartwan Bush DE 6-1 248 Fr-HS Clute, Texas/Brazoswood
56 Jonathan Brydon LB 6-4 236 Sr-1L San Antonio, Texas/Clark
57 Brian Duncan LB 6-1 248 Sr-3L Baton Rouge, La./Tara
58 Tahrick Peak LB 6-2 196 Fr-HS Dublin, Va./Pulaski County
59 Joel Gray OL 6-6 302 Fr-RS Lewisville, Texas/Hebron
59 Mike Jones DT 6-2 271 Fr-HS Sugar Land, Texas / Kempner
60 Jesse Smitherman DS 6-3 235 Jr-Sq Burleson, Texas/Burleson/Kilgore College
61 Bobbie Agoucha DT 6-4 341 Jr-TR Houston, Texas/Putnam North
61 Jonathan Guerra OL 6-4 297 So-Sq Victoria, Texas/Memorial
63 James Polk OT 6-6 331 Fr-HS Houston, Texas / Alief Elsik
64 Alex Dubois OL 6-3 294 Fr-HS New Braunfels, Texas/Canyon
65 LaAdrian Waddle OL 6-6 322 So-1L Columbus, Texas/Columbus
66 Deveric Gallington OL 6-3 314 So-1L North Richland Hills, Texas/Richland
68 Terry McDaniel OL 6-6 315 So-1L Diana, Texas/New Diana
69 Matt Scott OL 6-3 274 Fr-HS Flower Mound, Texas/Flower Mound
70 Chris Olson OL 6-5 300 Sr-3L Dallas, Texas/Highland Park
71 Kyle Clark OL 6-5 295 Fr-RS Denton, Texas/Guyer
72 Beau Carpenter OL 6-6 293 Fr-HS Sulphur Springs, Texas/Sulphur Springs
73 Justin Keown C 6-4 300 Sr-3L Anderson, S.C./Hargrave Military Academy
74 Mickey Okafor OL 6-6 305 Jr-2L Houston, Texas/Westbury
75 Blake Emert OL 6-5 297 Jr-1L Garland, Texas/Sachse
77 Coby Coleman DT 6-2 317 Fr-HS Frankston, Texas / Frankston
78 Lonnie Edwards OL 6-4 322 Jr-2L Brownsboro, Texas /Brownsboro
80 Garrick McCray WR 6-2 200 So-RS Keller, Texas/Midwestern State
82 Adam James IR 6-3 233 Jr-2L Celina, Texas/Celina
83 Blake Kelley IR 5-10 188 Sr-Sq Beaumont, Texas/West Brook/Blinn C.C.
84 Bradley Hicks PK 6-1 169 Jr-RS Magnolia, Texas/Magnolia/Blinn C.C.
85 Matt Williams PK 5-10 170 Sr-2L Weatherford, Texas/Weatherford
86 Alexander Torres WR 6-1 199 So-1L El Paso, Texas/Franklin
87 Aaron Fisher WR 6-2 186 Fr-RS Keller, Texas/Fossil Ridge
87 Travis Malone DE 6-1 232 So-Sq Murphy, Texas/Plano East
89 Tony Trahan TE 6-5 225 So-TR Coppell, Texas/Coppell/Rutgers
90 David Neill DL 6-5 284 Jr-2L Flower Mound, Texas/Marcus
91 Kerry Hyder DE 6-2 265 Fr-RS Austin, Texas/Lyndon B. Johnson
92 Lawrence Rumph DT 6-3 284 Jr-TR Keller, Texas / Navarro JC / Fossil Ridge
93 Colby Whitlock DL 6-3 294 Sr-3L Noble, Okla./Noble
94 Scott Smith DE 6-6 266 Jr-TR Kailua, Hawaii / Butler County CC / St. Louis
95 Pearlie Graves DT 6-2 286 Fr-RS Tulsa, Okla./East Central
96 Michael Aguilar LB 5-11 238 Sr-Sq Harlingen, Texas/Harlingen/Texas A&M-Kingsville
97 Britton Barbee DT 6-1 287 Sr-2L Abilene, Texas/Wylie
98 Donald Langley DT 6-2 257 Jr-TR Germantown, Md./Seneca Valley/Copiah-Lincoln C.C.
99 Chris Perry DL 6-4 309 Jr-2L Keller, Texas/Fossil Ridge/Miami (Fla.)