I don’t think Wilson could have beat out AM, he’s not very good.
I don’t disagree with anything you’ve said. Neither player would be the type HCSF would pursue and definitely not be a candidate for a ‘ship in order to get either of them to Lincoln. I do find both of their backgrounds interesting though and that is why I posted it.
And you know that he's "fvcking terrible" how exactly? His D-1 video is non-existent. We haven't seen Smothers play and I doubt you've seen him even scrimmage in practice so we have no way of knowing what Smothers will be like against P5 competition. I wasn't guessing where Ruder would land. That's why the ❓ in the thread title. The difference between him and Wilson is that I think Ruder could have as many as 3 years of eligibility left with a redshirt year, an injury redshirt year and then this year not counting. You do realize that Frost got a former 4 star WR to walk on as a transfer as well right?
I'm not sold on Haarberg and I find it hard to believe with the injuries to AM and LM that we wouldn't have seen Smothers late this year if he was doing well in practice. I think another scholarship QB from the transfer portal would be a reasonably logical idea. IF nothing else go find a kid who is willing to walk on as a grad transfer from a smaller program like the kid from USD did at WR. That worked out well for us.Exactly my point - I don't think there are any slam-dunk QB's in the portal who would be an immediate upgrade over AM/LM and you can automatically slot them into the starter role. You don't take a transfer QB unless you're either A) really low on QB numbers or B) you plan to make that transfer the new starter day1.
And you know that he's "fvcking terrible" how exactly? We haven't seen Smothers play and I doubt you've seen him even scrimmage in practice so we have no way of knowing what Smothers will be like against P5 competition. I wasn't guessing where Ruder would land. That's why the ❓ in the thread title. The difference between him and Wilson is that I think Ruder could have as many as 3 years of eligibility left with a redshirt year, an injury redshirt year and then this year not counting. You do realize that Frost got a former 4 star WR to walk on as a transfer as well right?
I was merely perusing the Rivals articles on portal QBs and saw this kid's name so I dug in to his profile a little. I remembered his name from back when he was in high school. He looks to me like he's every bit as intriguing as Bubba Starling and a much more likely possibility.
Your condescending attitude does not serve you well in this thread. Nobody could logically argue your other points in this post but that wasn't the point of starting this thread. We're not going to land a Justin Fields. That said, we struck out with our #1 QB target before we landed on Haarberg. It appears to me that there's a large question mark about the games of LM, LS and HH. IMO, our QB play specifically their ability to value the football has been a huge problem.
4 scholarship QBs is probably not enough. This year at times we only had 2 of them available and even they were both banged up. It sounds like Masker would have been called on in at least one game if AM couldn't have gone with his shoulder injury.
He knows everything. Don’t question him. We should be grateful that he is willing to educate us.
I NEVER said he had a chance to unseat AM. From what I've seen of Luke and the fact that they didn't bring Smothers in, I think there's a chance he could back up AM. That might be enough to entice a kid to give it a shot. We got a really nice grad transfer WR to walk on who is doing just that. Man who pissed in your Wheaties this morning? Yes it's condescending to call people who offer other possibilities stupid.
Now THAT take is condescending. I usually enjoy your takes but man you got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.
Normally he brings some pretty good stuff to the table. I'm not sure why he's so confrontational this morning. I haven't seen Ruder play nor has he. I just saw his name in the portal and looked him up. He had one game where he averaged 7 yards per carry before getting his collar bone broken. To me he looked like a more realistic guy to provide competition and depth at QB than a guy like Wilson did.
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I have a strong feeling that you will eventually see the number of kids entering the portal decrease.
yes, we need an elite top 50 QB to replace our guy, who's never finished higher than 63rd in QBR and never led the team to more than 4 wins in a season.
NOBODY has said he is/was. The point is that we need some depth at QB and from what I've seen from Luke, I'm not sure he has the type of arm talent we need at QB. Regardless of some of the posters who pump him up, Luke has a large hole in his game right now at QB. Until Smothers proves he can do the job at least in the spring scrimmage, I'm not going to hold my breath on him being the guy either. Likewise Haarberg competed in high school against a pretty low level of talent. It's a huge jump and he's a project. I don't think taking somebody else's back up who maybe wasn't a great fit for their offense isn't the craziest idea. The kid from the Canes is an intriguing guy. I thought he looked good in their bowl game when King got injured. Personally I would be more comfortable if we had another guy like Andrew Bunch with some demonstrated D-1 experience on the roster providing depth.
That makes some sense. But most quarterbacks in the transfer portal are probably not interested in going somewhere else to be a backup.
If AM is the starter for the next 2 seasons, I think it's likely he and Frost leave the program at the same time.
