Per Twitter: Malik Zaire to Florida
So consider it done?
Per SEC rules, they had two grad transfers that failed to meet certain academic requirements, so they are barred from taking any other grad transfers for three years.
https://www.seccountry.com/florida/report-former-notre-dame-qb-malik-za…
Who'd have guessed the SEC would have a rule to encourage academic performance. Thank god they'll be correcting things in line with their MO by revoking that rule for a competitive sports edge.
because DeShone Kizer is a NFL QB who stepped up immediately and seized the starting job when Zaire got hurt. It was that point where Brian Kelly couldn't bench Kizer because of his performance as a redshirt freshman. Zaire never lost his starting job with his play on the field, he lost it because he got hurt and Kizer was a stud when he took over. Zaire was on fire to begin his sophomore campaign.
more year.
is why I upvoted you, and feel pretty good about the game. Zaire is quite an athlete though. Agree he will have his hands full with Coach Brown's defense. Be nice to open the season with a big win over a good opponent.
He can't hit an 80 yard field goal.
A) It was off of a tee.
B) It had such a low trajectory it would have been blocked easily.
C) Other kickers too can kick it through the uprights at that distance off of a tee, but then struggle to kick it 60 yards off the ground and over the line.
While I agree he ain't hitting 80 yard field goals... it was NOT off a tee.
It was using a "holder" but off the ground.
This only helps our strength of schedule for playoff seeding, when we trounce them and UF goes on to be 10-2 behind Zaire.
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I remember as a kid shopping at Zayre with family until they lost to K-mart.
So remember that: Zayre loses. To K-mart.
Am I missing something or are Malik Zaires stats pretty much unimpressive and incomplete?
2014: 21/35 completions, 266 passing yards, 1TD
2015: 26/40 completions, 428 passing yards, 4TD
2016: 11/23 completions, 122 passing yards, 1TD
He's barely played. He's been beat out by Gholson and Kizer every year.
Seems he just has a "Big Name" due to all the QB contrversy that happened at Notre Dame
I completely fine if we have to face him against Florida. He's going to have a tough time running against don browns defense which could equate to some poor passes that our secondary can pick off. Plus its his first game at Florida and he wont have much prep time. THis could be really good for us.
This guy couldn't start at ND. He's brand new to to the offense. Nuss is the OC. We just need to worry about Speight getting untracked and off to a flying start on his Heisman campaign.
He will pay for what he has done.
Well, that makes the Florida game a little more interesting perhaps, although I am still pretty sure we can win this one all the same.
Of course, it means that Austin Appleby won't be able to show off his inner Purdue from go, but maybe that's better for Florida.
Highly recruited doesnt mean shit. So he had a 92 247 rating. 10th best DUAL THREAT QB in the nation. Big woop!
He played ONE good game in 2015 yet you guys are acting like Florida just got Baker Mayfield or something.
He has like 90 pass attempts in 3 years for 800 yards total. He's going to be playing at a new school in a new offense with new recievers against one of the best defenses in the nation. He's the one thats fucked.
Do these game logs scare you?
http://www.espn.com/college-football/player/gamelog/_/id/550967/year/20…
Once he gets some expierence under Floridas offense a few games into the season sure he might be a good QB but the 1st game? Doubtful he comes out and tears us a part
It's Nussmeier primarily. H3 couldn't do much with what he had here in a longer window of time (even though still very short here). His offense is extremely risk averse and run based. Brown won't let you run, you've really got to trick him a la FSU. But that takes practice time and Zaire will need all of that just to get the O down. Stop a few tricks and the few shots they take downfield and the defense should have a good day.
"If Malik plays like his former self"
He doesnt really have much of a former self to judge. He's barely played in college. Add in the fact he's now going to be playing at an entirely new school and offense in his first game I think Michigan will be fine.
Not an easy feat to transfer to a new school and conference and come out of the gate throwing like a top 10 QB. Theres a better chance he comes out making a lot of mistakes than there is he comes out ring us apart. He wont have the best rhythm with his recievers. He'll be going up aganist one of the best D-Lines in the nation.
I recall the first thread we started on this subject matter. Many made the point about what problems Zaire might represent to our defense. I made the statement then, based on McElwain's statements about him "looking forward to our current quarterback and it's going to be fun going forward." At that time I stated obviously he wouldn't be going to FL after a statement of that nature. Well, how very wrong. He could present more than a few problems, but he still has to fine tune so much, i.e., timing, "go to receiver," etc. In other words, I think he would have a lot more on his plate than our defense. In any regard, with him should be a more exciting game and we have to beat who's in front of us routinely until we're back, so I think we accept the challenge and prevail. Thus will be Coach's message.