Good point.
I think we all love Bell and appreciate all he did as a Sooner, but he was learning on the job. We need a guy that knows the position and has at least played it in high school. The one long pass play to Bell was indicative of what a TE is supposed to be able to do in the passing game, but we just didn't include it much for most of the season.
I thought Taylor McNamara was going to be the guy to get us back to playing with a solid TE, but apparently he was overrated by the services. He could always come out next year and light it up, but he'll have to make some major leaps in the offseason.
Dalton Wood, the kid that we got from McAlester is a very promising prospect, as are current freshmen Mark Andrews and Jeffery Mead. I really the recent emphasis on recruiting TEs means that we'll see them a lot more. We saw a little this year, but not as much as we probably should have.