ypsituckyboy

September 30th, 2015 at 9:34 AM ^

Totally random, but there's some talk on the other boards (not squashed by the mods) of an unnamed big-time grad transfer QB being interested in UM. Most people think it's Taysom Hill.

SwitchbladeSam

September 30th, 2015 at 10:37 AM ^

That may be true... but if you got benched and decided to transfer, wouldn't you try to pass your poor play on someone else and present the move as a positive thing? Time will tell. Again, I'm really not trying to hate. I'll leave it alone now so it won't come off that way. Good luck to him and I'll support him 100% if he wins the job.




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True Blue Grit

September 30th, 2015 at 10:51 AM ^

and they changed the offense.  Plus as was stated, the QB coach tried to change his mechanics.  Then, the head coach who recruited him was fired.  Too much change in one year probably.  I look at his transfer to Michigan and sitting out one year as a great way for him to do a "reset" while getting much better coaching.  So, I'm not concerned at all with what happened at Houston. 

SwitchbladeSam

September 30th, 2015 at 10:24 AM ^

Highlight tapes and practices often lead to overhype.  I watched Houston play several games last year.  Maybe I'm just bitter because he lost me money, but he looked bad.  I know he had a great first year and I know he has the tools.  But I think everyone needs to take a step back with their hype on this guy.  I'll be shocked if he's the starter next year. Hell, I'll eat a lemon...

ijohnb

September 30th, 2015 at 10:15 AM ^

like either the first name Zach or the last name O'Korn so neither can be our quarterback.  I was only OK with Rudock when I thought it was Ruddock.  The "name test" is one of the most important and reliable indicators in any sport and neither of our QB names for next year are sufficient.  We have to bring in other options or take another looks at Shane Morris because he can be called "Sugar" and has a much more awesome name.

mgobleu

September 30th, 2015 at 10:19 AM ^

All this time I thought it was Zach Morris, which obviously removed him from contention. This new information has forced me to reconsider Mr Morris as starting quarter back of the Michigan Football Wolverines.

ijohnb

September 30th, 2015 at 10:25 AM ^

an exception could be made to the anti-Zach policy if we actually had a quarterback named Zach Morris.  If we did I would demand he start immediately just on principle.

wahooverine

September 30th, 2015 at 10:44 AM ^

Watch his Houston highlights and tell me OKorn wouldn't be a killer in Harbaugh's system.  Has every physical tool and proved it a freshmen at the D1 level.  He went through a coordinator change after his freshman year which played a role in his coming here. Without that, he'd likely be putting up silly numbers down in Texas.

jmblue

September 30th, 2015 at 11:47 AM ^

Nothing is guaranteed, for sure, but when you have a guy who passed for 3,000 yards and 28 TD as a freshman, he's got to be considered the early favorite.  I don't know what the deal was last year, but his 2013 season shows that he's got a lot of talent.  Didn't they change OCs, or QB coaches?  

 

M-Dog

September 30th, 2015 at 9:50 AM ^

And it was 3 inches from a Pick-6 and being one of our highlights.  

If that happened, their highlights would have consisted of whatever their band did at halftime.  And I'm not sure they even brought their band.

ijohnb

September 30th, 2015 at 10:09 AM ^

that had to have sucked to have been a BYU fan last Saturday.  Absolutely nothing good happenned for them, there were no positive takeaways. It was like us a year ago at Notre Dame, where we were like "Norfleet had that kind of cool end-around on the second play."  That was it, that was our play.  The Norfleet 12 yard end-around.

ijohnb

September 30th, 2015 at 10:22 AM ^

I was not one of those people.  When ND went up 21-0 over the top of Countess there were major sirens going off in my head.  The after-game post title of "Zero Point Zero" was very accurate of the feeling I had after that game.  I knew there was no good news to come last year after watching that.