Hunter Johnson QB Battle
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All these offense juggernauts, stunning how the offense ranked so low nationally...
Ha ha ha, I approve of this message. Does this guy realize McCall put a QB in the NFL before he ever came to NU? McCall has a good QB track record and Fitz keeps the Offense on a lease because he know the defense wins championships.That's not name calling. Name calling would be "Hey, jimmyNUnothingaboutfootbll!" or "Is your full name Jimmy NewbieDumbass?" or "Get a clue, jimmypullyourheadoutofyourass!"
He was just saying you don't know what you're talking about.
Isn’t it their responsibility to make a decision during the off-season, rather than throw both out there against a ranked opponent (and prime recruiting rival) and see who sticks?
How many handles have you had under which you have been banned?
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Can you give examples of schools where the QB competition was too close to call so they split time in Game 1? No injuries or anything. Not pro/dual change of pace like Trevor and Kain.
Genuinely curious.
Yup, and no sportbook odds that I can find on this alleged QB competition, another dead giveaway...
It’s their responsibility to make the best decision for the team? At this point it appears they believe that is playing two QBs until one emerges rather than putting all their eggs in one basket.
The same coach that people here wanted to be fired before Justin Jackson?
In other words, YOU CANNOT SEPARATE COACHING FROM TALENT!!!
Since January 2018. It doesn't matter, though. Give Ayeni poor talent to work with and people here will be calling for his head, too. MacPherson was a good RB coach and excellent recruiter as well, but folks here wanted him fired because he didn't play RB in college. That's how ridiculously ignorant some people are here. The same with Jerry Brown, though he played the position. Other teams fans find our witch hunts to be ridiculous as well.
Justin Jackson had only 4 fumbles lost over 1264 touches and 6298 total yards. Yeah, McPherson sucked.
Then there are the "woulda, coulda, shoulda" whiners who think winning is easy and that the other team doesn't play to win. We lost to Akron...SO WHAT?! It was a huge win for them. Get over it.
Yep, don’t understand the agony over past losses. I’m looking to the next game. That said, everyone’s emotional makeup is different, but winners think like me.
My objective test for the quality of our coaches is the number that get recruited away to better positions at better programs. I think that is zero since Wilson. So apparently all those really dumb ADs and HCs at better programs are stupid too.
WAR is one of the greatest stats of all time. So McCall and Fitz and Cushing and Springer are all max WAR coaches, in your opinion?
And I agree, you are somewhat limited by the talent you recruit into the program. If your development skills lack, you should recruit only highly developed players. Cheers.
Yeah about 6min left in 3Q of Holiday Bowl and Jared McGee was our biggest offensive weapon
The three games I saw in person last year were arguably our worst - Rutgers, Ill and Akron. Was not enjoyable, but I'm over it. What I refuse to accept is people saying things like " we blew the game against Akron". No. Stats are for losers. Akron embarrassed our NFL QB and torched our DBs with one of the worst QBs in the MAC. Akron beat us, plain and simple.
Other teams anguish that they beat "themselves" when they lose to us. Let's not do the same. We got beat.
I think you are making up a straw man. I honestly don’t remember anyone calling for McPherson to be fired (o certainly didn’t). The only coach I thought truly was in over his head was Springer. I think McCall is past his due date.
I find it really perplexing when people (especially those in the scientific field), who completely discount the statistics. By just about any objective measure, NU’s offense has been at best below average and at worse way below average. The BTN crew said this repeatedly.
If Sindelar had done well the first half, I imagine he would have gotten the second. As it was, the competition was played up in the media, and Brohm did not hesitate to replace Sindelar with Blough, who had less physical talent but more experience and a better grasp of the offense (sound familiar?)
Fair enough, but there is a hierarchy of statistics, from meaningful to meaningless. Sitting alone at the top is a single one: W:L
David Blough is probably more talented than Green, and had 6000 career passing yards coming into that game.
My test is how well the coaching staff overperforms compared to their assessed talent level. We are one of the top five staffs in college football in that regard.
Four-star athletes are a piece of cake for NU to recruit. They're in aisle five next to top-50 basketball players. Cheers.
You either have a poor memory or have not been on the board very long...MacPherson and Jerry Brown were torched on a regular basis by the “board experts”.
Brohm’s choice was between Blough, in his last year of eligibility, with a ton of experience and so/so physical skills and Sindelar, who had greater physical skills and 2 years of remaining eligibility. I think it is premature to say how big a difference there is in physical skill between Blough and Green at this point in that Green has had limited playing time. I imagine there is some, but it is hard to quantify. What is interesting is that Brohm benched Sindelar, their quarterback of the future.
The original question was about whether there was a Power 5 team recently that had a quarterback competition that came to the wire where they split time the first game, and Purdue fit the bill. Also interesting is that after naming Sindelar the starter at the last minute, Brohm pulled him and only played him one more time, in mop up duty against Easter Michigan. Sindelar did not execute in the first half against the Cats, and Brohm essentially benched him and lost a year of development, though I assume Sindelar retained his eligibility year.
No straw men here. I have a good memory and can recall past witch hunts. People wanted McPherson fired before Venric Mark appeared. Did you know Jerry Brown was hated by many here and was labeled the "Affirmative Action coach" by one clown NU fan? As a fan, you know practically NOTHING about Springer's or any other coach's ability.
I like stats but stats are for losers in football. All that matters is the scoreboard. I learned that lesson the hard way at NU in 1975. Great stats, terrible losses.
Did you ever think that talent might be the issue? We're about 9th in the B1G talent-wise. The BTN said that repeatedly as well if you listened. We should rarely beat Iowa, MSU or Wisconsin but we do all the time. Our OL and WR talent has been average at best for quite some time. Those expecting a huge improvement in OL play this season will likely be disappointed no matter how well Anderson coaches them up.
I think people mostly thought of JB as overmatched as DC, but I do remember him considered by some as an idiot at DB coach until we started , you know, recruiting talent at DB. I did agree he was not a good DC choice
Nah. His coaching DB's was constantly and harshly criticized for several years.
The way Purdue ultimately played Sindelar and Blough in Game 1 last year is far closer to how I advocate NU uses Hunter and Green (name Hunter the starter, pull him if and only if he really struggles) than what Corbi seems to envision — a couple series for one guy, a couple for the other, and back and forth.
One thing I WOULD bet board names with Mike: no way Green replicates Blough's 2018 performance. It's just not the same.
Let's be clear, it's what I think the coaches are going to do based on what we all have heard. Since I don't have the benefit of seeing these guys practice repeatedly over the last 9 months, I don't have an informed opinion that can contradict that approach. I think we have very good coaches and I trust their decisions. Whatever happens, I am confident it will be the decision that gives this year's team the best chance to succeed.
I do remember the calls for Brown to be fired, I honestly don’t remember hearing that about McPherson. I’ll take your word for it.
As far as the only stat that matters is won/loss, let’s take it to an extreme. If we won every game 2-0, we would all be ok with the offense?
When people say stats are for losers, they show their ignorance.
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