Denard Robinson was label as Running Back not Quarterback during Michigan era.
I don’t know if this is worth tread for here. But there something that I noticed and it drive me nuts. I brought Michigan calendar 2015. On May it Denard Robinson who is our Quarterback for Michigan. BUT!!!! On the calendar they print as Running Back! It one of my biggest pet peeves that some people said that he is running back not quarterbacks. But I disagree with that. How do you judge on this?
Yes he is the second highest on the list for most yards in their career for Michigan. Does not mean he is a running back right?
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Top 20 career |
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Name |
Yards |
Start |
End |
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5040 |
2004 |
2007 |
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4495 |
2009 |
2012 |
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4472 |
1997 |
2000 |
This is my first post please do not hate me *hide in the cave*
I get one every year for the guest room.
Player A
537 passing attempts/250 completions 4284 yds 48 TDs/35 INTs
Player B
711 passing attempts/457 completions 5858 yds 37 TDs/20 INTs
Player C
727 passing attempts/427 completions 6250 yds 49 TDs/39 INTs
Player A: Rick Leach Player B: Todd Collins Player C: Denard Robinson.
Now tell me Denard isn't a fucking quarterback.
More accurately, he was an option quarterback who started as a true freshman. By the end of his career he had improved his passing substantially, but it was pretty obvious he was never going to be QB in the NFL. (So he played major league baseball instead.)
More often than not Bo had a glorified running back playing under center. This included Leach, Denny Franklin, Steve Smith and Michael Taylor, who were all multi-year starters. Michigan didn't start producing NFL starters until the Gary Moeller era. (Grbac was the first and admittedly started a few games under Bo when Taylor was hurt.)
One exception under Bo being Wangler. if not for a lingering knee injury I always thought he could have been an NFL quarterback. He was at least in a camp - I think with Dallas. But I completely agree with you - he was the exception.
If he had that injury today he may have had a more better recovery and played on.
Actually some guy named Harbaugh played for Bo and was a pretty good NFL QB.
I know he made a run of it in acting, but haven't heard what he did since.
He was a multi-year starter at QB for Michigan. What is printed on some calendar doesn't change that.
Yeah, he started 2 games at RB his senior year after suffering nerve damage in his arm. That doesn't change the fact that he was primarily a QB here.
Maybe they watched him try to throw the ball?
I have never witnesses a player who failed bigger in big ten play in my life.
Love,
Jdon
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If Brady and Borges had showed up on campus and just decided to play Denard at RB fulltime while bringing on a pro style transfer at QB, they might both be employed.
Of course, that would have required them to not junk the zone blocking scheme the OL had been trained to run and it would have required them to play a RB who wasn't a "bruiser," but it probably would have been more successful than what they did.
I just have a strong feeling that Denard lined up at RB with a quarterback capable of playing in Borges' timing based offense is far more likely to be a sustainable offense than "Denard runs around in a circle avoiding pressure and then heaves it deep."
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Michigan hasn't had a QB in 7 years.
This Calendar looks right to me.
I would be annoyed too OP. I'd probably get a marker and cross out Running Back because it is glaring.
Its sad that people are around here are so touchy (and, as I read down, racist) that folks are scared to post things.
He might have been a running QB, but he had over 6,000 career passing yards. Ranked 4th on the all time list.
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Just a clerical mistake because Madej was still live-updating roster data in 2012 when Denard had to play RB, and isn't around now to check off everything licensed for these kinds of mistakes.