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Looking back at the season, next year will boil down to the weight room results from the offseason. The only thing that kept us from being completely dismantled by the teams we lost to, was strength and conditioning. My concern is having a lack of older players next year. Will that cause us to take a step back in this department? Replacing Lundy, Wallace, and Fannin offensively is going to be next to impossible. Same goes for Webb, Heighton, and Bell on the defensive side. We will return a lot upfront, but our skill players being so physical and strong the last two years has been our strong suit, imo. This next season will tell us a lot about where our program is. Obvious we aren’t on Pikevilles level, but we seem to be following in their footsteps in terms of “reload” and not “rebuild”. I THINK we are at that point, but the fact remains that this graduating class was tough before the biggest chunk of them held back. That extra year made them even tougher to replace. So there’s a lot of pressure on the staff, imo, to prove themselves next year.