Jake Rudock: Quarterback Club Speech 5/2/16
Sorry but Ruddock would just barely make my top 10 if I got to choose a Michigan QB for life. My list would be as follows (and this based on their QB at Michigan - not as a pro)
1. Ricky Leach
2. Drew Henson
3. Denard Robinson
4. Jim Harbaugh
5. Elvis Grbac
6. Tom Brady
7. Chad Henne
8. Dennis Franklin
9. Brian Griese
10. Jake Ruddock
Shouldn't winning count for something?
Doesn't take me long to list Franklin as no. 1.
How about top M qb for past year. Interesting as well that Denard is the only qb you listed that wasn't part of a power. Personally, I would have rather seen Denard at RB and that little peckerhead from San Diego keep his shit together for 4 years. Now that would have been exciting.
but I have to ask you why you have Henson as #2 when several QB's on that list accomplished more while Michigan's QB.
In putting my list together, I tried to look not too much at their stats but rather at their ability to both lead the offense and win within the offensive system they played in. Leach and Franklin, for instance, didn't have the passing stats others did, but did very well within the confines of their playbooks.
My list is a bit different from yours: its the top QB's I've seen play at Michigan (been a Michigan fan since the late 60's and going to games since the mid 70's), so nearly all the QBs on your list make my top 10, just in a different order.
1) Rick Leach
2) Jim Harbaugh
3) Tom Brady
4) Elvis
5) Denard
6) Brian Griese
7) Dennis Franklin
8) Chad Henne
9) Drew Henson
10) John Navarre
11) Jake Rudock
12) Todd Collins
13) Steve Smith
14) Devin Gardner
15) Demetrius Brown
I think I probably would have ranked both Henson and Rudock higher had they been starters for more than one season. But Henson could have been a 3-year starter and still wouldn't have outranked Tom Brady, who I ALWAYS felt had a much better command of the offensive scheme and of the team itself.
I also love what I've seen of Rudock. So much so that if somehow he could have played 2 seasons rather than just one with Harbaugh and his coaching staff, we'd be looking at a 2nd rounder in last week's draft. I don't follow the Lions closely enough to know who handles their QB's, but I sure hope they don't blow it with Rudock, who I predict will be an NFL starting QB in his career.
Henson only started for one year. He passed for 2,146 yards that year with a 9-3 record. How does this make him "better" than Rudock?
When we look at Henson, we tend to judge him more on what he could have done than what he actually did. He had one great game against OSU, but John Cooper was still coaching in Columbus then.
i think of how we probably blew Bradys senior year trying to shoe horn Henson into games, and how he ditched us for a non existent baseball career.
Great Michigan quarterback doesnt even enter my mind for a minute.
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great quote by the kid. too bad he got drafted by my/our lions, that's kind of like falling into a pro football mine shaft with neither ladder nor rope to escape.
for most TD passes in a game. We're' - most of us are aware - that the single game record stood forever at 4 because to do otherwise would have been just running up the score. However, when forced to this year in OT, Jake had to throw for six in a game, and I thought that was why he didn't have the record. Looked it up just a bit ago and they said, List was llmited to players who had played at UM their entire career, but I don't know if that was just the wiki page or the university's stand.
Anyone know more?
Jake Rudock is all over Michigan's record book (page 89), to include most TD passes in a game, 6.
http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/mich/sports/m-footbl/auto_pdf/2015-…
have been waiting years for that record to be waved at. We had so many that could have but our teams were just too damn good and not many qbs got a chance to break it.
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Probably staee grads???
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whomever originally wrote the article didnt use a spellchecker becuase we all know damn well no one at the Freep wrote it. FTF.
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that rules me out
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Almost like him as much as Denard now because he kept his head down and worked his tail off.
/golf clap
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Was reading Fansided and one commenter wrote, in response to Most Likely Starter(O'Korn or Speight?), that not including Morris's name means the writer had niether the knowledge of M football or the expertise to be writing in the first place. I reminded him of the article's title. .
Lions and Lombardi trophy in the same sentence? Did you forget to add "/s" at the end or was it just so obviously implied?
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Jake Rudock continues to impress me. With his play and with the way he carries himself.
He is so humble and well-spoken, such a great respresentative of the University of Michigan.
It was incredible that he became the leader of the team in such a short amount of time.
He had incredible year for the team and for himself.
His leadership, talents, and wins enabled Harbaugh and the coaching staff to be able to recruit with passion and with results in hand.
did well here, I can't help but feel for Iowa. I hope Max B and Spike don't think the same thing as Jake....But they probably do/will. Sad.
Jake Rudock is everything Connor Cook should strive to be.
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If he was here 3 years earlier Hoke would have wrecked him. He would have been a shell of himself by the time Harbaugh got here.