Suffice to say this spring is huge in QB scrutiny. I'm totally clueless as to who will come out #1. TK was just too underwhelming last year for my taste. Whoever gets the QB nod, I hope we coach up at least three "go to" receivers. It's ridiculous just having Shepard to count on. If your job description is "Receivers Coach" then dangit, coach them up!! And while I love Shepard, please get us a 6'+ guy who can go up and posterize smaller db's.
I love that Cody's going all-in, but really, that's what he needed to do when he's going up against: - Trevor Knight, the Sugar Bowl hero - Baker Mayfield, the scout team hero - Justice Hansen, who I can't think of something awesome to say about but HIS NAME IS JUSTICE SO THAT MAKES HIM A HERO TOO DAMMIT
I want to see Shake do the Billy Sims dance after chucking a TD. And I want to hear the stadium intone, "Justice" after Hansen chucks one. Is that wrong?
TK played horrible in the bowl game, was coming off an injury, and the coaches still didn't play Thomas. After Thomas essentially threw the game away in the first half against Tech, we more or less became a completely one-dimensional running team in the second half of that game and throughout the rest of the regular season. There is nothing in his body of work that suggests he's a better passer or QB than Knight, let alone the other QBs. I suspect that the more likely scenario he is thinking about a transfer, and wants to go all in on football in the spring so that he can make an informed decision about whether to transfer somewhere else after fall camp. I would be very surprised if CT was any higher than third on the depth chart next season. TK has the most experience and is the most dynamic athlete of the bunch. He has also shown some flashes of brilliance, which may make the new coaching staff feel like he has the best potential and that they can coach the mistakes out of him. Mayfield has previous experience in this system and seems to be the best pure pocket passer. Don't know enough about Hansen to figure out where he will be.
What we have seen from CT is a small percentage of what the (remaining) coaches have seen. Look no further than TK last year when the coaches raved about him in practice, but what we saw in games was ineffective until the ISU game later in the season. Easy to speculate on why CT dropped baseball, but the one thing we can know for sure is that he has decided he has a higher chance of continuing his sports career in football than baseball. I personally would take that to mean he looks better in practice and in drills than he did on the field last year. Another direction to speculate is that he feels with Riley and a new system that the competition is truly open and he thinks he has a real shot at winning the job and splitting time with baseball only diminishes his chances. I had read on another board that he considered quitting football last season, so his showing on the field was partly due to not being "all in". Not many player are good enough to split their time at the D1 level, so I'm glad to see he has finally made his decision. It can only help the team by providing more competition even if he ends up transferring.
What I hope is that Riley's system has the capability and Riley himself the mental flexibility to take the general principles of the system and mold THEM to fit his QB. Rather than insisting that the QB(s) play against their strengths to fit into an arbitrary mold. Which is what I think happened last season. Example: TK is all about motion. He runs around to extend plays and throws best either from the run or after rolling out. And he needs to pull it down and run periodically to keep the DBs honest. Watch how he played in the Sugar Bowl. We didn't let him do that and his play suffered.
I hope that Riley looks at the QB's with fresh eyes and no preconceived ideas. Pretty sure that BS will let him do that. With Air Raid on the horizon and some big wr's recruited, the QB will have a quick read capability, short/medium range unerring accuracy and (prayerfully) an occasional long bomb and, along the way, enough gumption to turn around and hand the ball to Perine/Mixon/Ross et al. All this for more than 3 and out so the D can rest. Since some think there is more coaching change on the way, the D will have a different look, just a guess... when does Spring ball start?
To be honest I don't know why he is quiting baseball to foucs on football... He will not start. 0 chance at all.... Unless Knight gets hurt and Mayfield does too... I belive Mayfield will be the starter.
Zero chance? CT put up video game#'s running Riley's offense in high school. You would have to add TK & Mayfield's numbers to match CT's. Just sayin! http://pbstats.pointstreak.com/indi...ssing_yds&order_dir=desc&seasonid=TXHMFB_2012
Really? "In high school?" How many high school teams does OU have scheduled in 2015 so that CT can show off his skills "running Riley's offense." Two years, folks. We'll have a new head coach and a whole new coaching staff after two more years of this nonsense.
Really? "In high school?" How many high school teams does OU have scheduled in 2015 so that CT can show off his skills "running Riley's offense." Two years, folks. We'll have a new head coach and a whole new coaching staff after two more years of this nonsense. WAT.....???
No rage. I long ago accepted that Stoops was lost. He's now fully into using the gimmicky offenses and defenses that schools too insignificant to recruit enough serviceable offensive and defensive linemen are forced to run. Yes, some are forced to run it, but Stoops chooses to run it. And, so...hello, 8-5...and to a string of 3 to 5 loss seasons sure to follow until enough Regents wake up to demand changes. We're now just in the "waiting for the end phase" that Texas fans had to endure when Mack Brown began picking off small school assistants and coordinators to screw up his program. Mediocrity breeds mediocrity...and, we are hiring and signing it in spades. An 8-5 record has schools like Texas Tech and East Carolina all lathered up with joy. Wazzu fans would think they were Pac-12 contenders with such a lofty record. It makes sense, then, with Stoops unable to compete for enough linemen to run a 4-3, and a roster full of Practice Squad Manziels, that he'd give up and hire assistants cast off from the likes of Arizona, or "setting records" at crappy outposts such as Tech, ECU, and Wazzu.
I have a better solution: We choose the future starter based on how hot his SS.com photo is: wtf soonersports.com... HIS BASEBALL MUG SERIOUSLY?! he just announced that he's 100 percent football and they still have his baseball mug up... anyways, I'm a bona fide female and I pick JUSTICE HANSEN PS: Don't complain it's Valentine's Day week... shall I draw a little heart around him?
Do I need to start a poll so that everyone can vote? I will because offseason... who is the hottest and therefore most-eligible-to-start-at-quarterback Sooner?
