In effort to totally piss off Brian, Hoke announces Gardner "might" start if season started tomorrow
Because of this statement, Reader71 now thinks you are racist.
This is certainly one of the more reasonable anti-Gardner posts. Do I believe Gardner will and SHOULD be the starter? Absolutely. I believe he's earned it and nothing I have seen from Morris makes me think he gives Michigan a better chance to win.
Having said that, if people really believe that Gardner has been a perfect quarterback, please think back to Akron, Penn State, and UConn. If Gardner minimizes turnovers, those should all be easy wins. Instead, Michigan went 2-1 and both wins were nailbiters. More than Gardner impacted those games, but we would all be lying if we honestly believe he didn't have a lot to do with those struggles.
Like I said, believe Gardner is the better option, but at least this does point out that Gardner was far from perfect, which I think throws a lot of people off. Still, don't believe there is a controversy.
Gallon, Funchess, and Delio how many passes do you suppose they dropped against OSU, five or six? I wonder if that had an impact on the game.
... My favorite part of this piece was the video at the bottom of the article in which the sports anchor claimed that Gardner's pick at the opening of the spring game generated the present "quarterback controversy."
*Insert favorite iteration of the facepalm meme.*
Taking one right out of the old man's playbook.
It's on page two, right after "The Transfer Papers Routine."
Is anyone else still hoping Shane gets reshirted somehow this year?
Wait, what does this have to do with basketball?
/basketball school
Gotta earn them wings!
/s ...
What makes you think Devin needs a fire lit under his ass? Is he not working hard enough for your tastes?
I find this whole thing ridiculous and unneccesary. I don't remember any Senior QB who wasnt the defacto starter in Spring. I may be wrong but do any of the other old-timers remember Bo declaring that Franklin, Leach, Wangler, Smith, Harbaugh or Taylor "might" start their Senior year? The only one of these that I recall was the Brady/Henson QB time share and that wasn't under Bo's watch.
It might be simply "coach-speak" but if I was Devin I'd be pretty pissed unless Morris is just playing lights out and killing it in practice. Cause nothing I saw in the Copper Bowl or Spring Game would indicate there's even a shred of doubt who's the better QB.
April 19th, 2014 at 12:01 AM ^
I'm with you on this one. This whole thing is just a dumb, non issue.
/s
I feel bad I decided to read through the rest of this thread.
I'm gonna know who the starter is by watching the first game. In the mean time:
Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our Mgoblog
April 18th, 2014 at 10:09 PM ^
April 18th, 2014 at 10:43 PM ^
First off, relax.
I made it to the bottom of the thread! I get a reward, right?
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April 18th, 2014 at 10:30 PM ^
Brady didn't say anything that Bo Schembechler wouldn't have said too, along with a million other head coaches. And after a 7-6 season, there's little reason for him to declare anybody a pre-emptive starter four months from the start of fall camp.
With respect to what Shane showed in the bowl game, I would expect that most kids with real talent are going to make noticeable strides between their first season and their second spring camp.
Ultimately, the angst this is revealing is a function of going 8-5 and 7-6. If we'd gone 10-2 and 11-1 with victories over OSU and MSU in the last two years, Hoke's statements wouldn't be subject to this level of obsessive interpretation. It wasn't too long ago that he was said to "poop gold" around here.
April 19th, 2014 at 10:43 AM ^
Agreed. Sadly, now all Hoke can poop these days is....
Poop.
April 19th, 2014 at 12:35 PM ^
Weren't a few posters just a week ago railing at Brian for dismissing the "BENCH GARDNER" crowd because "tilting at windmills" or some shit?
Check out this thread, haters. That crowd exists. They are extra stupid, but they exist. That's why.